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Identifier: americanmuseumj08amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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COLLECTIONS FROM THE EAVUM 13 nose besides a pair of small ones directly over the eyes. A nearly com- plete skull of a young individual of this animal was secured, together with parts of many other skulls. Nearly all other parts of the skeleton are represented, too. The most interesting part of the collection is the series of specimens illustrating the early stages in the evolution of the Proboscideans (Masto- dons and Elephants). The later stages in the evolution of these animals are well representetl in the fossils of both Europe and North America, and the American ^Museum has a fine series of skulls of these forms.
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SEARCHING FOR FOSSILS IN THE PRODUCTIVE BED. Six or eight feet of uiifossiliferous sand has previously been removed from above the bone-bearing layer. The earlier stages were imknown, however, before the discovery of this Eocene fauna of Egypt showed that the Elephants were of African origin and spread from there over both the Old and the New World. Two genera have been descril)ed from the Fayiim fossils: Mirrithiuui, the smaller and more primitive, had probably but little resemblance to the modern Elephant, but Palcpomastodon was of larger size and had already begun to develop a trunk and other peculiarities of the Pro- boscideans. Fine skulls and parts of the skeletons of both these genera

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