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I.—On the Pleistocene Ossiferous Deposits of the Balearic Islands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Dorothea M. A. Bate
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Like so many of the islands of the Mediterranean the Balearic group has yielded interesting remains of an extinct Pleistocene fauna. These have been discovered in cave breccias and in fissures of which a brief description may be of interest.

Previous to 1909 the only record of the occurrence of any Pleistocene mammalian remains in the Balearic Islands was, I believe, that of De la Marmora, who mentioned indications of a bone breccia in the hill of Belver, near Palma, where he observed a bone which appeared to be that of a Lagomys or a rabbit. Since then, as the result of three short visits undertaken by the writer, a quantity of ossiferous remains have been obtained from the caves and fissures of Mallorca and Menorca. It may be mentioned that I failed to locate the breccia recorded near Belver.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 1 , Issue 8 , August 1914 , pp. 337 - 345
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1914

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page 337 note 1 “Observations géologiques sur les deux Iles Baleares”: Mem. Accad. Sci., Torino, sér. I, vol. xxxvii, p. 59, 1855.

page 337 note 2 Etudes géologiques sur les Iles Baléares, Paris, 1879.

page 339 note 1 Bull. Soc. Zool. France, tom, xxx, No. 4, p. 72 et seq., Juillet, 1905.

page 340 note 1 “A new Artiodactyle from Majorca, Myotragus Balearicus, gen. et sp. nov.,” by Bate, D. M. A.: Geol. Mag., 1909, pp. 385–8.Google ScholarSee also Reports and Proceedings, Royal Society, June 18, 1914, “Description of the Skull and Skeleton of a Rupicaprine Antelope, Myotragus balearicus (Bate),” by Dr. Andrews, C. W. F.R.S.: Geol. Mag., reprinted infra, p. 378.Google Scholar

page 340 note 2 Proc. Malac. Soc., vol. ix, pt. ii, June, 1910, pp. 118–22.

page 341 note 1 These were kindly examined and identified for me by Miss E. Loraine Smith.

page 344 note 1 Testudo gymnesicus, Geol. Mag., March, 1914, pp. 100–7.