Identifier: guidetofossilmam00brit (find matches)
Title: A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palontology in the British Museum (Natural history) ... With 6 plates and 88 text-figures
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology Woodward, Arthur Smith, 1864-1944
Subjects: Mammals, Fossil Birds, Fossil
Publisher: London : Printed by order of the Trustees (by W. Clowes and sons, limited)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Block of Lower riiocene I\Iarl from Iikenui. (ireece, crowded with remains of Mamiualsand a few bones of Birds; about one-tifth nat. size. The central skull belongsto Hipparum, the surrounding bones to Hqqiarion, various antelopes, and onesmall carnivore. (Case A.) 1 To face j/. 2. B.M. GlIDE FOSS. MAM>r. and BIRDS. PLATE III.
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Block of Lower Pliocene Marl from Pikermi, Greece, crowded with bone.s (oppositeside of specimen shown in Plate II.). The bent hind liml> of Hipparion isconspicuous, surrounded by other bones of this animal and antelopes, withbird-bones below. (Case A.) (7o face p. 3. MAMMALIA. 6 cemented together by carbonate of lime, they are termed Pier-case 2. bone-breccias (Italian breccia, a crumb). Examples are shown from Gibraltar, from )\linas Geraes, Brazil, and from the Vrelliugton Caves, New South Wales (Pier-case 2, top shelf). Treacherous ground, like a swamp or peat-bog, is often rich in the skeletons and other remains of animals which have become mired by accident. The salt marshes or licks of North America thus yield remarkable skeletons of the mastodon (Stand B), while the tundras of Siberia entomb innumerable carcases of the mammoth and woolly rhinoceros. Caverns. The ))one-bearing deposits on the floors of caverns in Wall-caselimestone districts are particularly interesting, bec

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