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Hippopodium ponderosum, Sowerby. 1/4 diameter. Leptaena Moorei, Davidson. No less than eight or nine species of Spiriferina are enumerated by Mr. Davidson as belonging to the Lias. Palliobranchiate mollusca predominate greatly in strata older than the Trias; but, so far as we yet know, they did not survive the Liassic epoch. Ammonites Bucklandi, Sowerby. Ammonites bisulcatus, Brug.
In 1854 the remains of another mammifer, small in size, but larger than any of those previously known, was brought to light. Portion of a fossil fruit of Podocarya Bucklandi, Ung., magnified. Cone of fossil Araucaria sphaerocarpa, Carruthers. Inferior Oolite. Bruton, Somersetshire. One-third diameter of original. Ostrea acuminata.
This fact made him doubt whether the Amphitherium might not be an insectivorous placental, although it offered some points of approximation in its osteology to the marsupials, especially to the Myrmecobius, a small insectivorous quadruped of Australia, which has nine molars on each side of the lower jaw, besides a canine and three incisors. Phascolotherium Bucklandi, Broderip, sp. a.
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