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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13205926754).jpg 58 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY NoV 4 <br> perfect caudal vertebrae the 8th and 9th of the fossil fig 5 and <br> of their homologues in the large Fox fig 6 the teeth of which <br> were compared with the fossil There are some other differences <br> between the bones of the fossil and those of the Common Fox in <br> the relative strength of the ulna and fibula for example ; but they <br> are of minor importance to those above detailed The characters <br> founded upon those differences not only establish the specific di- <br> stinction of the fossil from the Common Fox but afford as good <br> ground for its subgeneric distinction from Canis or Vulpes as any <br> that can be pointed out in the skeleton of Lycaon ; the excess of <br> development of the pollex being as remarkable in the fossil as <br> its defective development is in the Cape Hunting Dog Lycaon <br> pictus ; and the CEningen fossil tends as much to diminish the inter- <br> val between Canis and Viverra as the Lycaon does that between <br> Canis and Hycena <br> Vulpes communis nat size <br> The foregoing notes were written before I received the fasciculus <br> of the Fauna der Vorwelt ' of M H von Meyer 184 5 in which <br> he has copied the reduced figure of the fossil from the ' Geological <br> Transactions ' / c pi 33 with some criticism of Dr Mantell's de- <br> scription and some remarks on characters exhibited by the figures <br> which indicate the specific distinction of the fossil from the Canis <br> Vulpes communis for which name as applied to the fossil M von <br> Meyer cites Dr Mantell as the authority in both his present work <br> p 4 and in his Palaeologica ' f8vo 1832 p 50 <br> M von Meyer first observes that the skull of the fossil appears to <br> be rather short in comparison to the Canis lagopus and rather high <br> in proportion to its length as compared with the skull of the Com- <br> mon Foxf Dr Mantell however after remarking The skull ap- <br> Canis Vulpes communis fossilis H von Meyer ' Palaeologica ' 1832 p 50 <br> Vulpes des schistes d' CEningen ' De Blainville 1843 p 157 <br> t Mir scheint der Schadel des fossiler Thiers gegen Canis lagopus Isatis <br> wuniger stumpf und gegen den gemeinen Fuchs im Vergleich zur Lange etwas <br> 61 hoch loc cit p 4 36932779 113687 51125 Page 58 Text v 3 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36932779 1847 Geological Society of London NameFound Canis lagopus NameConfirmed Canis lagopus NameFound H von NameFound Isatis NameConfirmed Isatis L EOLID 71306 NameFound Lycaon NameConfirmed Lycaon EOLID 20198 NameBankID 2478106 NameFound Lycaon pictus NameConfirmed Lycaon pictus EOLID 328697 NameBankID 2478107 NameFound M von NameFound Viverra NameConfirmed Viverra EOLID 19891 NameBankID 2478481 NameFound Vulpes NameConfirmed Vulpes EOLID 11021260 NameBankID 2478123 NameFound Vulpes communis NameConfirmed Vulpes communis Burnett 1830 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 3 1847 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36932779 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36932779 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-17 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13205926754 2015-08-26 12 56 42 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1847 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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