V.—Some Rodents from the Middle Miocene Lacustrine Deposits of Oeningen, Southern Germany

C. I. Forsyth Major

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V.—Some Rodents from the Middle Miocene Lacustrine Deposits of Oeningen, Southern Germany

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C. I. Forsyth Major

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In the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History) are preserved a certain number of slabs from Oeningen, exhibiting skeletons of Rodents. Partly owing to unskilful developing, partly to the absence of the counterpart-slab, several of them are in such a crushed and otherwise imperfect condition, that in some cases not even the genus could be made out with certainty; which is equivalent to saying that their interest is little beyond that of mere curiosities. On closer examination it appeared to me that in some instances the case was not quite so hopeless, and that by carefully developing the more important parts still concealed by the matrix, a more satisfactory state of things might be obtained. The following pages are an account of the result arrived at.

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Information: Geological Magazine , Volume 6 , Issue 8 , August 1899 , pp. 363 - 373

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756800142414 [Opens in a new window]
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^{page 363 note 1} “. …das erste Stück, welches ich in der reichen Sammlung des Professors van Breda erblickte, war ein neuer Nager von Oeningen, dem ich den Namen Sciurus Bredai beigelegt habe.” (Neues Jahrb., p. 472, 1848.)

^{page 364 note 1} Palaeontographica, xxxi, p. 88 (1884).

^{page 364 note 2} Beitr. Pal. Oestr.-Ung., viii, pp. 470, 471 (1890).

^{page 364 note 3} Arch. Mus. Lyon, v, p. 50 (1892).

^{page 364 note 4} H. Filhol, “Etudes sur les Mammifères fossiles de Sansan”: Ann. Sci. Géol., xxi, 20, No. 1, pp. 38, 39 (1891).

^{page 364 note 5} Part i, p. 211 (1885).

^{page 364 note 6} Cat. Foss. Mamm., i, p. xii

^{page 365 note 1} P.Z.S., p. 191, pi. x, fig. 5 (1893).

^{page 365 note 2} R. I. Murchison, “On a Fossil Fox found at Oeningen, near Constance, etc.”: Trans. Geol. Soc. London, iii, 2, p. 285 (1832). “Another animal of this order [i.e. Rodentia] was brought from the quarries this year by Professor Sedgwick, which M. Laurillard, of the Jardin du Roi, Paris, refers to Lagomys.”

^{page 366 note 1} König: Icones Foss. Sect., pi. x, fig. 126 (1825).

^{page 366 note 2} Neues Jahrbuch, p. 58 (1836).

^{page 366 note 3} H. v. Meyer: “Zur Fauna des Vorwelt, Fossile Säugethiere, Vögel und Reptilien aus dem Molasse-Mergel ven Oeningen,” p. 7 (1845).

^{page 366 note 4} Zeitechr. deutsch. geol. Ges., viii, p. 698 (1856).

^{page 367 note 1} Palaeontographica, xvii, p. 228 (1870).

^{page 367 note 2} Loc. cit., p. 688.

^{page 367 note 3} Quenstedt: Handbuch d. Petrefaktenkunde, 2^te Aufl., p. 45, fig. 6^te (1867); id. H., 3^te Aufl., p. 55, fig. 7 (1885).

^{page 367 note 4} Palaeontographica, xxxi, p. 31 (1884).

^{page 367 note 5} Handbuch d. Palaeontologie, iv, p. 553 (1891–93).

^{page 367 note 6} Loc. cit., p. 32.

^{page 367 note 7} Loc. cit., p. 31, pi. viii, figs. 40, 46, 49.

^{page 367 note 8} Loc. cit., pp. 31, 32.

^{page 367 note 9} Loc. cit., pp. 28–31.

^{page 368 note 1} Loc. cit., p. 32

^{page 368 note 2} W. G. A. Biedermann: Petrefacten aus der Umgegend von Winterthur, 2^tes Heft, Die Braunkohlen von Elgg, p. 13, pi. iii, figs. i, 2, 3 (1863)

^{page 369 note 1} Arch. Mus. Lyon, iv, p. 164, pi. xiii, figs. 16, 16a (1887).

^{page 369 note 2} Loc. cit., p. 164, pi. xiii, fig. 17.

^{page 369 note 3} Loc. cit., p. 171, pi. xiii, fig. 19.

^{page 369 note 4} “La Faune des Mammif. mioc. de La-Grive-Saint-Alban”: Arch, du Mus. d'Hist. Nat. de Lyon, v (1892).

^{page 369 note 5} Beitr. Pal. Östr.-Ung., viii, pp. 86, 87 (1891).

^{page 369 note 6} Loc. cit., p. 58.

^{page 369 note 7} Depéret, “Sur la Classification et le Parallélisme du Système Miocène”: Bull. Soc. Géol. France, xxi, p. 206 (1893).

^{page 369 note 8} Arch. Mus. Lyon, iv, p. 164 (1887).

^{page 370 note 1} See B. Hensel in Zeitschr. deutsch. geol. Ges., viii, pi. xvi, figs. 1–3 (1856).

^{page 372 note 1} Ch. Depéret, “Classif. et Parall. du Système Miocène”: Bull. Soc. Géol. France, 3^e série, xxi, p. 245 (1893).

^{page 372 note 2} I, p. 227.

^{page 372 note 3} Cat. Foss. Mamm., i, p. 258.

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