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I.—Notes on Elephas (Stegodon) ganesa, Falc. & Caut., from the Pliocene Deposits of the Sewalik Hills, India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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India, the present home of one of the two types of existing elephants (Elephas Indicus), has also yielded abundant evidence of numerous extinct forms of this animal; two species of Dinotherium, eight species of Mastodon, and seven species of extinct elephants being recorded from the Miocene and Pliocene formations of that great continent.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1899

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References

page 337 note 1 “Palæontological Memoirs and Notes of the late Hugh Falconer, M.D., V.P.R.S., For. Sec. Geol. Soc.” (1868), compiled and edited by Chas. Murchison, M.D., F.R.S. Two vols., 8vo (plates).

page 339 note 1 “Pal. Mem.,” vol. i, p. 80, pi. vi, fig. 1; or “Fauna Autiq. Sival.,” pi. iii, fig. 7a. Length of tooth, 9.25 inches.