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On the fossil remains of Elephas melitensis, an extinct pigmy species of elephant; and of other Mammalia, &c. from the ossiferous caves of Malta. In: Charles Murchison (ed.), Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer....
London, Robert Hardwicke (2 vols.): Vol. 2 (xiii + 675): 292-308. Pls. 11-14.
–In Appendix II of this article ("Extracts from Dr. Falconer's Note-Books", 301-307), item No. 6 ("Fossil Halitherium, from Malta", 304) consists of Falconer's notes written in the British Museum, Dec. 20, 1862. He found that a set of 3 teeth from Malta compare closely with Halitherium and not with the suid Listriodon. The editor adds that "This fossil was not obtained from the caves. It was purchased for Capt. Spratt from a collector, and was probably obtained from the Miocene deposits of Malta." See A.L. Adams (1879) for further discussion of this specimen.
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