(fig. 12), with the exception that the second antler is very much smaller, and evidently belonged to a younger animal.
These antlers are distinguished from those which have preceded them by the brow-tyne springing at a distance instead of rising directly from the burr.
Fig. 12.
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Fig. 11.
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Figs. 11, 12. Antlers of Cervus cylindroceros, Dawkins, Auvergne (Brit. Mus.), one eighth nat. size.
The fragmentary remains which form the type specimens of the Cervus ardeus (or ardei) of Messrs. Croizet and Jobert, from Ardé, and are preserved in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, are also referable in part to this species, together with some other specimens bearing the same name. The fragment, however, with two tynes, assigned by Croizet and Jobert (pl. ii. fig. 3, and pl. iii. fig, 2) to this animal, probably belongs to some other species.
It is very likely that the C. ambiguus of Pomel, from the Pliocenes of Peyrolles, belongs to this species.
Formation.—Upper Pliocenes of Auvergne.
