Undescribed Fossil Carnivora from the Siválik Hills in the Collection of the British Museum
1880; Geological Society of London; Volume: 36; Issue: 1-4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1144/gsl.jgs.1880.036.01-04.13
ISSN2058-105X
Autores Tópico(s)Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
ResumoThe able descriptions by Falconer, supplemented of late by Rütimeyer and Lydekker, have made the Sivālik Ungulates widely known in the scientific world; but the remains of the Carnivora, partly on account of their comparative rarity and, perhaps, partly because they mostly belong to forms which do not strike the imagination so forcibly, have had less attention bestowed on them. As long ago as 1836, Falconer and Cautley described two of the larger forms under the names of Felis cristata and Ursus sivalensis *. The latter was afterwards raised to the rank of a genus, called by Falconer, Hyœnarctos , evidently in opposition to De Blainville, who, under the designation of Sivalarctos , placed it at the head of his new suborder Subursidæ. Subsequently Dr. Falconer described another novel and highly interesting Carnivore under the title of Euhydriodon sivalensis . All these descriptions will be found in the first volume of the Palæontological Memoirs†. Owing to the untimely death of Dr. Falconer, science was deprived of the rare advantage of a description of the remaining Carnivora from the pen of that gifted comparative anatomist. Most of them, however, had been figured by Mr. Ford for the ‘Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis’‡, but were never published. At the suggestion of Prof. Judd and Mr. Etheridge, I undertook an examination of these; and through the courtesy and liberality of Dr. Woodward, of the Geological Department, every facility was afforded to me for my investigation. I have also to acknowledge my obligations to Mr. Davies, of the Geological Department
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