. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. 40 VEETEBKATA. No. 149. Mastodon giganteus, Guy. Lower Jaw. This was found in St. Catherines, Canada West, and is pre- served in Burnet's Museum, Table Rock, Niagara. Size, 3 ft. 2 in. s 2 ft. 7 in. Price, $ No. 150. Mastodon Borsoni, Hays. Lower Jaw. This species was founded on the supposed absence of the longitudinal cleft along the sumniit of the molars. It is a " ; The specimen was found in the Upper Pliocene, Vialette, Department
. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. 40 VEETEBKATA. No. 149. Mastodon giganteus, Guy. Lower Jaw. This was found in St. Catherines, Canada West, and is pre- served in Burnet's Museum, Table Rock, Niagara. Size, 3 ft. 2 in. s 2 ft. 7 in. Price, $ No. 150. Mastodon Borsoni, Hays. Lower Jaw. This species was founded on the supposed absence of the longitudinal cleft along the sumniit of the molars. It is a " ; The specimen was found in the Upper Pliocene, Vialette, Department of Haute-Loire, France, and is in the Museum of Natural History at Lyons. Size, 24x18. Price, $ No. 151. Mastodon Arvernensis, Croizet and Jobert. Lower Jaw. This lower jaw of the Auvergne Mastodon was found in the Pleistocene sands of Montachita, Italy. It lacks both condyles, but shows the nascent dentition of the third molar teeth. The original is in the Museum of the University of Pisa. Size, 15 x 14. Price, $ No. 152. Mastodon longirostris, Kaup. Lower Jaw, right ramus, fragment. This species is characterized by three narrow molars in each ramus, and especially by the prolongation of the lower jaw which carries a pair of tusks only slightly deflected from the line of the grinders. It is distinguished from Jf. angustidens, Cuv., by a more complex last molar tooth. It is a " Tetralophodon," since the first and second true molars have foui* ridges. The remains are almost entirely confined to the Upper Miocene sands of Eppelsheim ; this specimen was found in the Middle Miocene near Lyons, France, and belongs to the Museum of Natural History in that city. It contains the deep sockets for the tusks. Size, 14 x 8. Price, $3,00. No. 153. Mastodon giganteus, Cuv. Lower Jaw, right ramus. This fragment was found in Missouri, and is in the Royal Museum of Berlin. Size, 28 x 14. Price, $ No. 154. Mastodon Andium, Cuv. Lower Jaw, left ramus. This species has fo
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