XVI. On Megaladapis madagascariensis , an extinct gigantic lemuroid from Madagascar
Author(s) -
Chris Major
Publication year - 1894
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9126
pISSN - 0370-1662
DOI - 10.1098/rspl.1893.0067
Subject(s) - skull , marl , anatomy , biology , paleontology , rothschild , white (mutation) , geography , archaeology , biochemistry , structural basin , gene
The subject of the present paper is a somewhat imperfect Mammalian skull, together with a right and left mandibular ramus, apparently belonging to the same specimen, discovered by Mr. J. T. Last (collector for the Hon. Lionel Walter de Rothschild), in a marsh at Ambolisatra, on the south-west coast of Madagascar, beneath a stratum of a white clayey substance (shell-marl ?) from 18 in. to 2 ft. in thickness. At first sight the skull appears to have no relation whatever with any known Mammalian group, either existing or extinct.
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