EUROPEAN MIOCENE AND PLIOCENE STRATA.
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The only differences to be observed between these antlers and those figured and described by Prof. Gaudry are that in the latter the second tyne rises at a smaller angle to the beam, and the third is larger. These are probably due to varying age and possibly race.
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| Fig. 1. Antler of Cervus Matheroni, Gerv., Brit. Mus., one third nat. size. Fig. 2. Antler of Cervus cusanus, Cr. & Job., Brit. Mus., one third nat. size. | |
The absence of the brow-tyne (see B, figs. 3–5) separates this type of antler from that of the division Axis and Rusa, with which it has been compared.
Size.—The head of the animal was about the size of that of a large Roe-deer, which it probably resembled in outer form.
