Archive image from page 304 of The deer of all lands;. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct deerofalllandshi00lyde Year: 1898 American Deer 243 sub-basal snag ; and adding that the fossil antlers curved forwards some- what after the manner of those of the living species. In a restoration subsequently attempted they are, however, represented as inclining back- About 27 inches is the length of the largest antler. Distribution.—France, England, and probably other parts of Europe, during the latter part of the Pliocene and the early portion of the Pli
Archive image from page 304 of The deer of all lands;. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct deerofalllandshi00lyde Year: 1898 American Deer 243 sub-basal snag ; and adding that the fossil antlers curved forwards some- what after the manner of those of the living species. In a restoration subsequently attempted they are, however, represented as inclining back- About 27 inches is the length of the largest antler. Distribution.—France, England, and probably other parts of Europe, during the latter part of the Pliocene and the early portion of the Plistocene period ; the type specimens being from Peyrolles in the Puy- de-D6me, and the English examples occurring in the Norfolk forest-bed. Fig. 67.—Restoration of Antlers of Five-tined Deer, rf, sub-basal snag ; t>, lower prong of main fork ; c, upper prong do. ; d, terminal tines. XII. The American Deer—Genus Mazama Mazama, Rafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag. vol. i. p. 44 (1817). Characters.—Lateral metacarpal bones as in Rangifer, that is, with their lower extremities remaining. Antlers very variable in size, the beam forming a marked angle with the plane of the face, and without a brow-tine ; when consisting of more than a simple undivided prong, dichotomously forked, frequently with a sub-basal snag, and always with the lower, or anterior prong of the main fork projected from the front edge of the beam, in some cases the lower, in others the upper (posterior), and in others both prongs again dividing. Muzzle with a large naked 1 Dawkins, Early Man in Britain, p. 86, fig. 18 (1880).
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