Description of Some Fossil Remains of Dinotherium, Giraffe , and other Mammalia, from the Gulf of Cambay, Western Coast of India, Chiefly from the Collection Presented by Captain Fulljames, of the Bombay Engineers, to the Museum of the Geological Society

Abstract

During the late meeting of the British Association, at Cambridge, I made a communication to the Geological section on some new additions to the Fossil Fauna of India, from Perim Island, in the Gulf of Cambay. Among these were mentioned a species of Dinotherium, Giraffe , and a new Ruminant genus of a size nearly equalling the Sivatherium , found associated with remains of Mastodon, Elephant, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus , and several species of Ruminants. The occurrence of Dinotherium in the extinct Fauna of India, is a point of such interest, that no delay ought to take place in laying before palæontologists the evidence upon which the statement is founded; and as the Geological Society possesses the largest collection of Perim Island fossils to which I have had access, including remains of most of the species to be noticed in the sequel, the pages of its journal are the fittest place for this communication, the main object, indeed, of which is to do justice to the meritorious labours of Captain Fulljames, of the Bombay Engineers, one of the earliest and most successful explorers of the ossiferous beds of Perim Island. This is the more called for, as considerable delay has occured in the description and determination of the remains which that officer collected and transmitted to England several years ago.