scholarly journals IV. On the fossil mammals of Australia. — Part IV. Dentition and mandible of thylacoleo carnifex , with remarks on the argument for its Herbivority

1871 ◽  
Vol 19 (123-129) ◽  
pp. 94-96
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Fossil Mammals ◽  
Introductory Section ◽  
Upper Jaw ◽  
Mandibular Teeth

In this paper the author, referring in the Introductory Section (1) to objections published to his former restorations and inferences as to the function of the dentition of Thylacoleo , proceeds to give descriptions, with figures, of (2) an upper jaw and maxillary teeth, and (3) of a portion of the mandible with mandibular teeth, from tertiary deposits at Gowrie Creek, Queensland, presented to the British Museum by Sir Daniel Cooper, Bart.

scholarly journals XI. On the fossil mammals of Australia. —part VII. Genus phascolomys: species exceeding the existing ones in size

1872 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 241-258 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
Fossil Mammals ◽  
Lower Jaw ◽  
Upper Jaw ◽  
The Right

In a former communication I applied the cranial, mandibular, and dental characters of the existing species of Wombat to the determination of the fossil species resembling them in size; in the present are given the results of an easier task, viz. the determination of extinct Wombats of markedly superior size to any now living; and I shall describe the fossils as the species they represent progressively predominate in bulk. 1. Phascolomys medius , Ow. —This species is represented by a lower jaw, fractured at both ends, presented by Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart., to the Geological Society of London; also by the fore part of the upper jaw of two individuals and by the right ramus, fractured at both ends, of the lower jaw, obtained by Edward S. Hill, Esq., from freshwater deposits exposed in the bed of a tributary of the Condamine River, at Eton Vale, Queensland: the latter were submitted to me in 1865, and have been liberally presented, with other Queensland fossils, to the British Museum by Sir Daniel Cooper, Bart. All these fossils are in the usual heavy, petrified, rolled, and more or less mutilated condition of such remains from the above formation and locality.

III.—Note on some Fossil Mammals from Salonica and Imbros

1918 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 540-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.W. Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Fossil Mammals ◽  
Active Service ◽  
Bone Beds

On several occasions during the War, officers on active service in the Near East have found time to collect a few fossils, some of which have been sent to the British Museum. In three cases these were remains of mammals, and these discoveries are of importance as indicating the existence of bone-bearing deposits in localities where they were previously unknown, and where, not improbably, they may prove to be as rich as the well-known bone-beds of Samos and Pikermi.

scholarly journals On the fossil mammals of Australia.―Part X. Family macropodidæ: Mandibular dentition and parts of the skeleton of palorchestes , with additional evidences of sthenurus, macropus titan , and procoptodon

1875 ◽  
Vol 23 (156-163) ◽  
pp. 451-451
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Mammals ◽  
Viii And Ix ◽  
Hind Foot ◽  
Mandibular Teeth

In this “Part” the author gives additional evidences of extinct genera and species of Kangaroos defined in the two preceding Parts (VIII. and IX.). To the Palorchestes Azael he adds characters of the mandible and mandibular teeth, and gives a restoration of the entire skull; the pelvis, femur, tibia, calcaneum, and principal bones of the hind foot of this gigantic species are described and figured. Of Macropus Titan the author restores the entire skull and femur.

VI. On the molar teeth, lower jaw, of macrauchenia patachonica, ow

1870 ◽  
Vol 160 ◽  
pp. 79-81
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Cervical Vertebrae ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Vertebral Arteries ◽  
Fossil Remains ◽  
Lower Jaw ◽  
Natural Size ◽  
Molar Teeth ◽  
Upper Jaw

The dentition of a Mammal so rare and interesting as the Macrauchenia deserves better illustrations than the single reduced view of the lower molars given in 1845, and the still more reduced figures of both upper and lower teeth lithographed by Bravard. The intention to communicate to the Koyal Society a description with figures of the natural size of the specimen of mandible and teeth, still unique, in the British Museum, has been deferred in the hope of acquiring from South America other fossil remains, especially the upper jaw and teeth of Macrauchenia patachonica , but such fossils have not yet come under my observation. The recently obtained knowledge, however, of the former existence of another large quadruped in America, with cameline characteristics of the cervical vertebrae like those in Macruhenia , coupled with true cameline affinities, as exemplified by the dentition of the lower jaw in Palauchenia , induces me no longer to delay the adequate record of the characters which so strikingly distinguish the perissodactyle from the artiodactyle forms of hoofed quadrupeds with the intraneural course of the vertebral arteries in the region of the neck.

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