. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. MAMMALIA. 19. of preservation, and was discovered in the Miocene deposits of the Sewalik Hills, India. It is preserved in the British Museum. Size, 10 x 7. Price, $ No. 46. Megaceros Hibernicus, Owen. Skull with Ant- lers. This splendid fossil, the most re- markable of the un- questionably extinct species of the Cervine family, and common- ly but erroneously called " The Great Irish Elk," is a true Deer, intermediate between the Fallow and Eein-D
. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. MAMMALIA. 19. of preservation, and was discovered in the Miocene deposits of the Sewalik Hills, India. It is preserved in the British Museum. Size, 10 x 7. Price, $ No. 46. Megaceros Hibernicus, Owen. Skull with Ant- lers. This splendid fossil, the most re- markable of the un- questionably extinct species of the Cervine family, and common- ly but erroneously called " The Great Irish Elk," is a true Deer, intermediate between the Fallow and Eein-Deer. Though most abundant in, it is not peculiar to, Ireland, many remains having been found in England and the Isle of Man. It was described so long ago as 1796, by Molyneux, who considered it a Moose. The top of the skull of this noble animal, when standing erect, was ten feet from the ground. The antlers, which far surpass those of any living Deer or Elk, have a span of about eight feet; they are branched and palmate, and were undoubtedly shed and reproduced annually. The broad and massive subtriangular palm has a graceful oblique twist, and sends off seven branches. The skull closely conforms to that of the Rein-Deer, but there are no rudiments of upper canines. The vast weight of this antlered skull was supported by cervical vertebrae of extraoi'dinary develop- ment. The M. was cotemporaneous with the Mammoth, but probably became extinct before the creation of Man. This skull belongs to a skeleton perfect in all its parts, and of unusually large dimension, which was discovered in the Pleistocene deposits of shell-marl that underlie the peat-bogs in the neighbor- hood of Limerick, Ireland, and is now in the private Geological Cabinet of Mr. Ward, Rochester. Size of skull, 22 x 10. Price of skull with antlers, packed, $; with mountings, $, (Antlers in nine pieces unpainted.) No. 47. Megaceros Hibernicus, Owen. Skull and Lower Jaw. Size, 22x 10. Price, $ No. 48
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