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EUROPEAN MIOCENE AND PLIOCENE STRATA.
411

possess antlers (Brit. Mus.) of the same slender form and double curvature.

Measurements (inches).

Jardin des Plantes, Mont
Perrier.
Palais des Beaux Arts, Lyons,
Chagny (Saône et Loire).
Jardin des Plantes, Paris;
Val d'Arno.
Ditto.
Ditto.Brit. Mus. Coll.,
Pentland, 28833.
C. peyrollensis, Brit. Mus.,
No. 34516.
Ditto, No. 34526.
Ditto, No. 34527.
  1. Total length
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
21+ 9+ ... ... ... ... 11+
  1. Length of pedicle
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
1⋅5
  1. Circumference of pedicle
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
3⋅8
  1. Basal circumference of antler
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
4⋅5 3⋅9 3⋅9 4⋅0 3⋅5 4⋅5 3⋅4 2⋅8
  1. Burr to fork of brow-tyne
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
2⋅0 1⋅5 1⋅15 1⋅8 1⋅4 2⋅4 2⋅5 1⋅5
  1. Fork of brow-tyne to fork of
    second tyne
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
9⋅5 6⋅0 ... ... 8⋅0
  1. Length of third tyne
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
10⋅0

Formation.—Upper Pliocenes of Auvergne, Chagny, and the Yal d'Arno.

D. Cervus suttonensis, Dawkins. (Figs. 7, 8, 9, 10.)

A series of antlers in the British Museum from the Crag presents characters which I am unable to identify with those of any species on record, and which I have met with in nearly every collection of Mammalia from the Crag in Norfolk and Suffolk which I have examined. In spite, therefore, of their fragmentary condition, I have ventured to figure and describe them under the name of Cervus suttonensis, because the two most perfect examples were obtained from the Crag of Sutton. Three out of the four antlers chosen as types are in the British Museum, and are more or less waterworn and stained with peroxide of iron, like most of the remains of the Mammalia with which they were associated. All those which I have seen have been shed, and not torn forcibly away from the head; and all have lost the crown and the distal portion of the beam. The specimens in the British Museum have been obtained at Sutton, Felixstowe, and Woodbridge. Those communicated by Mr. Ransome to Professor Owen, and assigned by him to the Miocene Cervus dicranoceros of Kaup, were derived from the Bed Crag of Sutton and Ipswich; those in Mr. Whincopp's collection from that of Woodbridge; those in the Rev. J. Gunn's from the Norwich Crag of Horstead; and those in Mr. Prestwich's from Sutton.

Definition (figs. 7–10).—The base of the antler is cylindrical, and the burr is very strongly marked and circumscribes the base in a plane