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A TREATISE ON GEOLOGY.
CHAP. VI.
Felis ogygia.
—— prisca.
Rodentia Palæomys castoroides.
Aulacodon (Chelodus) typus.
Chalicomys Jageri.
Spermophilus supercilious.
Myoxus (Arctomys) primigenius.
Cricetus (vulgaris?) fossilis.
Ruminantia Moschus antiquus.
Cervus anocerus.
——— brachycerus.
——— trigonocerus.
——— dicranocerus.
——— curtocerus.
Pachydermata Rhinoceros Schleiermacheri.
————— incisivus.
————— leptodon.
Mastodon angustidens.
———— arvernensis.
Equus caballus primigenius.
—— mulus primigenius
—— asinus primigenius.
Tapirus priscus (Lophiodon Cuv.)
Lophiodon Goldfussii.
Sus antiquus.
—— palæochaerus.
Dinotherium bavaricum.
—————— giganteum.
Edentata Manis gigantea.

At Georges Gmünd, near Roth, beds of sandy marl and whitish concretionary limestone crown low hills of keuper sandstone, and contain subordinate beds of calcareous, ferruginous, and bony breccia.

The catalogue of the bones found at this place by Count Munster and other observers, is thus given by Meyer (Palæologica, 1832):—

Mustela, new species. Dinotherium bavaricum.
Ursus spelæus. Lophiodon, 2 species.
A new species of carnivore. Palæotherium magnum.
Mastodon angustidens. ——————— aurelianense.
————— arvernensis. Anthracotherium.
Rhinoceros tichorhinus. Cheeropotamus Sommeringii.
————— incisivus. Cervus.

In Mr. Murchison's account of Gmünd (Geol. Proc.