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English: Comparison of the skulls of the modern horse Equus ferus (A) compared to that of Hipparum (B)
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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)
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which was originallymud washed down from the neighbouring marble-range ofPentelieon. )\lany of the bones are in natural associatitm(as, for instance, those of one bent leg oi. Hij)parioii), sliowingthat parts of the skeletons were l)uried rapidly before allthe ligaments and muscles which held them together haddecayed. At Olivola, in the CaiTara Mountains, Italy, thereis an Upper Pliocene torrent-deposit filled with bones andpebbles ; and good examples of this are shown in Iier-case 2(top shelf). In many places, in the deposits left by rivers,there are great collections of bones Ijrought together Ijyeddying currents, such as those discovered in the valley ofthe Thames during the working of brick-fields at Ilford andCrayford. There are also numerous fissures, especially inlimestone districts, largely filled witli accumulations of 1 toneswhich have fallen or been washed into them. When theseIjones are mingled with angular fragments of rock and B.M. GUIDE FOSS. MAMM. and BIRDS. PLATE II.
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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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