A description of the skull and skeleton of a peculiarly modified Rupicaprine antelope (Myotiagus balearicus, Bate), with a notice of a new variety, M balericus var major
A description of the skull and skeleton of a peculiarly modified Rupicaprine antelope (Myotiagus balearicus, Bate), with a notice of a new variety, M balericus var major
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10.1098/rstb.1915.0006
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1915-10-01
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Andrews, CW
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Andrews, CW
1909 年春天，在一次短暂访问巴利阿里群岛寻找脊椎动物化石的过程中，D. M. A. Bate 小姐在马略卡岛的一些洞穴沉积物中发现了非凡的有蹄类动物的遗骸，她后来将其命名为 Myotragus balericus。随后的访问导致了更多材料的积累，并发现这种动物也出现在梅诺卡岛，在那里发现了它的遗骸与最近被描述为“Testudogymnesica”的一种非常大的陆龟的遗骸有关！*。在马略卡岛和梅诺卡岛，这些骨头通常是在洞穴角砾岩中发现的，这些角砾岩埋藏在洞穴中，几乎所有情况下这些洞穴都或多或少地被海水破坏了，只剩下原始沉积物的碎片。贝特小姐最近出版了关于这些洞穴和化石出现方式的精彩描述。
In the spring of 1909, during a short visit to the Balearic Islands in search of fossil vertebrates, Miss D. M. A. Bate discovered in some cavern deposits in Majorca the remains of the remarkable ungulate to which she afterwards gave the nameMyotragus balericus. Subsequent visits led to the accumulation of more material and to the discovery that the animal also occurred in Minorca, where its remains were found associated with those of a very large land tortoise which has recently been described!* under the name ofTestudo gymnesica. In both Majorca and Minorca the bones were usually found in cave breccias, laid down in caverns which in nearly all cases have been more or less destroyed by the sea, only fragments of the original deposits remaining. An excellent account of these caves and the mode of occurrence of the fossils has recently been published by Miss Bate.