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I. On a new Genus ( Miolophus ) of Mammal from the London Clay

1865; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 2; Issue: 14 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0016756800470470

1469-5081

Owen,

Comparative Animal Anatomy Studies

I have been favoured by Mr. G. E. Roberts with the inspection of a fossil from the London Clay of Sheppey, which indicates a genus of mammals distinct from Pliolophus and Hytacotherium , to both of which it is nearly allied. It consists of so much of the upper jaw (Plate X., fig. 1 ) as includes the six sockets of the molar series of each side, with the intervening bony palate and the anterior piers of the zygomatic arches: the upper part of this portion of skull has been crushed and filled up with compact septarian stone. The last, m 3, and penultimate, m 2, molars of both sides, and the last right premolar, p 4, remain in their sockets. In point of size they differ from those teeth in Hyracotherium leporinum in about the same degree as do those of Hyracotherium cuniculus , but exhibit a modification of generic value.