Image from page 79 of "A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) .." (1896)

Image from page 79 of "A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) .." (1896)


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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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us planirottris (Cuvier), Pliocene,Antwerp Crag: \ nat. size. 14, vomer; 14, mesethmoid; 21, maxilla; 22. pre-masilla; d, d, canals, which terminate in the prenasal fossae. Ceag Cetacea. (See Table-case No. 11.) Edentata—Sloth, Armadillo, etc. 67 36 orcrowns, in all. The molar teeth have Cetacea.with serrated edges and two another extinctof Bavaria and molars on each side,laterally compresseddistinct roots. Coloured reproductions of skulls ofCetacean, Squalodon, from the Mioceneof Central France, are also exhibited here. In the Table-case is placed a series of the rostral bonesof Zipliiidce and the ear bones (Cetotolithes) of true whales fromthe Suffolk Crag- (see Figs. 79 and 80, p. 66), and casts of ear-bones from the Belgian Crag Deposits. In the Wall-case, in addition to a cast of the skull and otherbones of Zeuglodon, are exhibited a series of vertebra? andother remains of whales from the Red Crag of Suffolk, and Squalodon. Pier-case,No. 21. Table-case,No. 11. Wall-case,No. 22.

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Fig. 81.—The left periotic bone of ftfesoplodon InnffirosttKeel Crag of Suffolk. : (Cuvier), from the casts of figured specimens from the Antwerp Crag. In the opposite case are placed the remains of Cetacea obtained from -wall-case superficial and modern deposits in various parts of England. No. 28. THE PAVILION (Xo. 2 on Plan). Order IX.—EDENTATA. (Sloth, Abmadillo, &c.) In this gallery are arranged the remains of the various extinctgenera of Edentata from America belonging to the Sloths andArmadillos, and remarkable for their gigantic size when comparedwith their small living representatives. All the animals of thisorder are vegetarians in diet, except the Ant-eaters and theArmadillos, the former of which subsist on the White Ant, andthe latter on the grubs of insects, roots, etc. The name of theorder is misleading, as these animals are not entirely toothless,with the exception of the Myrmecophaga (Ant-eaters), the frontteeth only being wanting in the majority ; the cheek-te


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