Cranbrook, Earl of, 2000, Quaternary mammal fossils from Borneo.Sarawak Museum The Sarawak Museum is the oldest museum in Borneo. It was established in 1888 and opened in 1891 in a purpose-built building in Kuching, Sarawak. Sponsored by Charles Brooke, the second White Rajah of Sarawak, the establishment of the museum was strongly encouraged by Alfred Russel Journal, 55, no. 76: 216-233. The basis for this article consists of two fossils bought in Kuching, but for which the provenance is not exactly known. Based on the evidence provided by adherent adherent /ad·her·ent/ (-ent) sticking or holding fast, or having such qualities. particles of matrix, they probably came from one of the many open-cast workings now operating in West Kalimantan and other provinces of Indonesian Borneo. One is a fragmentary lower last molar of a stegodontid and the second is the upper jaw and toothrow of a juvenile hippopotamus hippopotamus, herbivorous, river-living mammal of tropical Africa. The large hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius, has a short-legged, broad body with a tough gray or brown hide. . In Borneo, stegodontid specimens are rare and none has yet been found in situ In place. When something is "in situ," it is in its original location. . There have been no previous fossil records of a hippopotamus in Borneo. (EI, Rosemary Robson-McKillop) |
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