Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (1915) (17793588423)

Title: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Identifier: annalsofnewyo26191516newy (find matches)
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: New York Academy of Sciences
Subjects: Science
Publisher: New York, New York Academy of Sciences
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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258 ANNAL.S NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES noteworthy that the polycladine deer (Cervus sedgiuicM) do not reappear in any of the subsequent Pleistocene formations of Europe. Arrivals,—Among the new arrivals in the Forest Bed of )!^orfolk are the earliest members of the giant deer race (Megaceros) which continues into Middle Pleistocene times in Europe. We also note in the Forest Bed the presence of a form (Caprovis) intermediate between the goat and the sheep, as the name indicates, and most closely resembling the moufflon of Sardinia. Among the rodents the large beaver TrogonfJie-
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FiG. 10.—Giant deer, Megaceros, of the British Pleistocene From a skeleton found in the Irish peat bogs. After original by Charles R. Knight in the American Museum of Natural History. .rium cuvieri succeeds the smaller ancestral species (T. minus) first ob- served, in the Pliocene of the Eed Crag. The giant hippopotamus (H. major) is certainly recorded in this region of G-reat Britain as well as to the south in Italy. Among the proofs of a northerly climate is the first occurrence of the musk-ox (Ovihus), which is attributed by Dawkins"'-^ to tlie Forest Bed deposits. ^ Dawkins, W. Bovd : "On the Alleged Existence of Ovibos moschatus in the Forest- bed, and on its Range in Space and Time." Quart. .Tour, fteol. Soc. London, Vol. 39, pp. 576-579. 188.3.