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period, and, with the exception of the last, none are now living on the earth.

Fig. 25.—Cervus verticornis, Dawk., Forest Bed, 1/4.

He would also have seen animals unknown in the Pleiocene age, some extinct, while others now form part of the fauna of temperate Europe and Asia. To the former belong the great hairy mammoth (Fig. 22), the Irish elk, and two large deer (Cervus verticornis, Fig. 25, and Cervus carnutorum), a large beaver (Trogontherium), and the great cave bear, while the latter are represented by many species. In the woodlands and plains there were wild oxen (uri), stags, and roe-deer; in the rivers and streams, beavers and