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The Meiocene fauna and flora of Britain are but insignificant fragments of those found in the strata occupying a vast area in Europe, south of a line passing through Antwerp, and represented in northern Germany and Denmark by outliers or isolated parts of what were once probably continuous formations. For the purposes of this chapter, the vegetation will be considered in one group, while the mammalia will be treated in three groups—a Lower, Middle, and Upper. It must, however, be remarked that there is less difference between these than between the like divisions of the Eocene described in the last chapter.

The following table represents the Meiocene classification, according to Heer, Gaudry, and Forsyth Major, the two latter using the mammalia as their principal means of determining relative age:—