English: a. Profile
b. upper, and
c. lower, views of the skull of
Caenotherium filholi (Lydekker). Upper Eocene, Caylux, France. (syn.
Caenomeryx filholi, Cainotheriidae)
Identifier: guidetofossilma00brit (find matches)
Title: A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) ..
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology Woodward, Henry, 1832-1921
Subjects: Mammals, Fossil Birds, Fossil
Publisher: (London) Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
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Fie;. 57.—The last four right upper cheek-teeth of LopJiiotneryx Clialaniati (Pomel);from the Eocene Phosphorites of Quercy, France. species the series is continuous, with no diastema between the Gelocus canines and premolars. The feet had four complete digits. L°Pni°- Gelocus and LopAiomeryx occur in the Lower Miocene of several choero- localities in France, and Cheer ornery x in the Siwalik Hills, India, meryx. 48 Artiodactyla—Camotherium.
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Fig. 58.—(a) Profile, (b) upper, and (c) lower, views of the skull of CasiiotlieriwnFilholi (Lydekker). Upper Eocene, Caylux, France. Artiodactyla—Camels, Llamas, etc. 49 Family Tragulid^: (Clievrotains). —The extinct fossil genera, t ragulidseProdremotherium and Bachitherium, from the Upper Eocene of Dorcathe-C ay lux, and Hyomoschus ( = Dorcatlierium) from Eppelsheimin rium> &c-Hessen-Darmstadt, Sansan in France, and the Siwalik Hills in Table-case,India, are probably early ancestors of the Tragulidce, or Cliev-rotains. the smallest of existing ruminants, not exceeding thehare in size ; the fossil forms were, however, considerably larger.The teeth of a species of Chevrotain (Tragulus sivalensis) occnrin No. 8. No. 13. Fig. 59.—Reduced side-view of skull of living Chevrotain, Tragulus javunicus (Pallas). the Siwaliks of the Bramaputra Valley, India. The nearly entireskull with the mandible of Dorcatherium (exhibited in Table-case No. 8), is the type-specimen, first des
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