. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Fossil Equidae of South Africa. 411 metastylid is incorrect, and that the shape of this pillar corresponds to that in Equus harrisi. The specimen is numbered 2821. A worn first right lower molar from Bloembosch, Darling (S.A.M., Cat. No. 2718), 76 mm. high, must also be assigned to the same form. Its antero-posterior diameter is 30-5 mm., and its transverse diameter 18*5 mm. It is a much worn tooth, and the valley between the anterior and posterior outer pillar is impressed to such an extent that
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. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Fossil Equidae of South Africa. 411 metastylid is incorrect, and that the shape of this pillar corresponds to that in Equus harrisi. The specimen is numbered 2821. A worn first right lower molar from Bloembosch, Darling (S.A.M., Cat. No. 2718), 76 mm. high, must also be assigned to the same form. Its antero-posterior diameter is 30-5 mm., and its transverse diameter 18*5 mm. It is a much worn tooth, and the valley between the anterior and posterior outer pillar is impressed to such an extent that the enamel impinges on that bordering the valley between the metaconid and metastylid and causes a slight fold in it.. Text-fig. 2.—Enamel patterns of teeth of Equus capensis Broom. A, No. 654, Second upper left molar, Bloembosch, Darling ; B, No. 2821, Fourth lower left premolar, Saldanha Bay, C.P. ; C, No. 2718, First right lower molar, Bloembosch, Darling. Since the lower teeth from Bloembosch and Saldanha Bay seem definitely referable to E. capensis, we can reasonably infer that the upper premolars and molars of large size from the same localities should be assigned to the same species. Broom has already done this, and has described and figured (Bull. Amer. Mus., vol. xxxii, 1913, p. 438) a worn upper fourth premolar from Saldanha Bay—not from Darling—in the collection of the South African Museum (Cat. No. 2717). The height of this tooth is 70 mm. We have no good upper first molar, but the second upper left molar is represented by specimen No. 654 from Bloembosch, Darling. This has an antero- posterior diameter of 30 mm., a transverse diameter of 30 mm., and an antero-posterior length of the protocone of 17 mm. The. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. South African Museum. Cape Town :