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THE discovery of ancestral Proboscidean and other remarkable mammalian forms in the Egyptian desert has already been noticed in NATURE (vol. lxiv. p. 582). Dr. C. W. Andrews's preliminary descriptions of the remains show that the deposits are of deep interest to palæontologists and other students of mammalian morphology and distribution. Mr. H. J. L. Beadnell now announces, in a pamphlet of two pages of text, illustrated by six plates, that explorations of the desert bounding the Fayum depression have led to the discovery of several new creatures. “The most important of these,” he says, “is a large, heavily built, ungulate, about the size of a rhinoceros, and for which the writer proposes the generic name Arsinoitherium, from Queen Arsinoe, after whom the Fayum was called in Ptolemaic times, the species being A. Zitteli, in honour of the eminent geologist, who may be regarded as the pioneer of geology in. Egypt, and whose work when attached to the Rohlfs Expedition of 1873–74 is well known to all geologists.” The accompanying illustrations, reproduced from the paper, show a side view (Fig. 1) and a back view (Fig. 2) of the type specimen.
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Announcement of New Mammalian Remains from Egypt . Nature 65, 494–495 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065494a0
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