. Catalogue of the mammals of western Europe (Europe exclusive of Russia) in the collection of the British Museum. 438 CARNIVORA surface at first nearly flat, then sloping almost perpendicularly to very rudimentary cingulum ; commissure relatively shorter than in Maries. Lower carnassial slightly more than twice as long as broad, the sectorial portion of the tooth consisting of two equally robust cusps, the lower the paraconid, whose anterior border slopes backward at an angle of about 50 \ and the higher the protoconid, the two connected by an abruptly angled commissure. No trace of metaconid
. Catalogue of the mammals of western Europe (Europe exclusive of Russia) in the collection of the British Museum. 438 CARNIVORA surface at first nearly flat, then sloping almost perpendicularly to very rudimentary cingulum ; commissure relatively shorter than in Maries. Lower carnassial slightly more than twice as long as broad, the sectorial portion of the tooth consisting of two equally robust cusps, the lower the paraconid, whose anterior border slopes backward at an angle of about 50 \ and the higher the protoconid, the two connected by an abruptly angled commissure. No trace of metaconid other than a barely noticeable thickening in the ridge which extends from apex of protoconid downward along inner side of cusp to cingulum ; a similar ridge at outer side of protoconid and across posterior heel slighth' external to. Fin, !il. (iiiloijuln. Tffth. ^'at. size. middle. Crushing portion of crown reduced to a mere ledge much wider than long and with scarcely half the area of base of protoconid ; a faintly indicated outer tubercle. Second lower molar subterete, flat, with faintly developed cusp and longi- tudinal and transverse cross ridges, its crown area about equal to tliat of j)JH2) ''^^^ ^ little larger than that of posterior heel of m.,. Upper molar relatively small, its crown area scarcely more than half that of carnassial, its greatest diameter about two-thirds that of carnassial; diameter of inner portion of crown slightly greater than that of outer portion, the constriction between the two portions not well defined : cusps as in Maries martes, but paracone and metacone tending to become confluent. k. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology. [Mammals]; Miller, Gerrit Smith. London : BMNH
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