[Illustration: Fig. 253.--A, Skull of _Machairodus cultridens_,
without the lower jaw, reduced in size; B, Canine tooth of the
same, one-half the natural size. Pliocene, France.]
Lastly, we may note that the Pliocene deposits of Europe have
yielded the remains of Monkeys (_Quadrumana_), allied to the
existing _Semnopitheci_ and Macaques.
LITERATURE.
The following list comprises a small selection of some of the
more important and readily accessible works and memoirs relating
to the Tertiary rocks and their fossils. With few exceptions,
foreign works relating to the Tertiary strata of the continent
of Europe or their organic remains have been omitted:--
(1) 'Elements of Geology.' Lyell.
(2) 'Students' Elements of Geology.' Lyell.
(3) 'Manual of Palaeontology.' Owen.
(4) 'British Fossil Mammals and Birds.' Owen.
(5) 'Traite de Paleontologie.' Pictet.
(6) 'Cours Elementaire de Paleontologie.' D'Orbigny.
(7) "Probable Age of the London Clay," &c.--'Quart. Journ. Geol.
Soc.,' vol. iii. Prestwich.
(8) 'Structure and Probable Age of the Bagshot Sands'--Ibid., vol.
iii. Prestwich.
(9) 'Tertiary Formations of the Isle of Wight'--Ibid., vol. ii.
Prestwich.
(10) 'Structure of the Strata between the London Clay and the
Chalk,' &c.--Ibid., vols. vi., viii., and x. Prestwich.
(11) 'Correlation of the Eocene Tertiaries of England, France,
and Belgium'--Ibid.
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