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CHAP. VI.
POST-TERTIARY STRATA.
309
Porcupine Val d'Arno.
Osteopora platycephalus, Harlan Delaware.
Megatherium australe, Okes Buenos Ayres, Lima, Paraguay, Darmstadt Francisco River in Brazil.
Megalonix boreale, Okes Virginia, Brazil.
Manis gigantea, Cuv. Avaray, near Orleans.
Dasyurus Australia.
Hypsiprymnus Ditto.
Phascolomys Ditto.
Halmaturus Ditto.
Gryphus antiquitatis Gibraltar.
Motacilla, Lin. Cette.
Corvus Kirkdale.
Alauda Ditto.
Phasianus gallus? Lunelvieil.
Gallinacea Pondres.
Columba Kirkdale.
Anas (sponsor?) Kirkdale.
4 undetermined species Chockier.
7 species Sardinia.
Ardea Yorkshire.

The accounts of fossil reptiles in terrestrial accumulations are very indefinite.
Belænæ and mondontes occur in the Forth valley. A variety of land and freshwater mollusca and conchifera,
all of existing species, lie in the breccias of Nice, the caves of Bize, Pondres, Villefranche Lauraguais, and in
the ossiferous marks and gravel beds of Yorkshire.