. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . § nat. size. Fens, Cambridgeshire. CASTOR EUROP^US. European Beaver. Castor des tourbieres,Castor fossilis, Tropontherium Werneri, CuviER, Ossem. Fossiles, v. pt. 1. p. ., Nova Acta Acad. Nat. Cur. torn. xi. pt. 2. p. , Memoires de la Societe des Naturalistes de Moscou, torn. ii. p. 2S0. That the present European Beaver is not the degeneratedescendant of the great Trogontherlum, is proved, not onlyby the differences in the dental structure pointed out inthe preceding section, but likewise by the fact that Beavers,in no re
. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . § nat. size. Fens, Cambridgeshire. CASTOR EUROP^US. European Beaver. Castor des tourbieres,Castor fossilis, Tropontherium Werneri, CuviER, Ossem. Fossiles, v. pt. 1. p. ., Nova Acta Acad. Nat. Cur. torn. xi. pt. 2. p. , Memoires de la Societe des Naturalistes de Moscou, torn. ii. p. 2S0. That the present European Beaver is not the degeneratedescendant of the great Trogontherlum, is proved, not onlyby the differences in the dental structure pointed out inthe preceding section, but likewise by the fact that Beavers,in no respect differing in size or anatomical characters from CASTOR EUROP^US. 191 the Castor Europeeus of the present day, co-existed withthe TrogontJierium. Remains of the Beaver have l)een tlmsdiscovered l^y Mr. Green in the same fossihzed condition,and under circumstances indicative of equal antiquity withthe extinct Mammoth, in the hxcustrine formations at M. Fischer, on his part, having received remains of aBeaver from near the Lake of
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