The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . Sliplland f„„v PACHYDERMATA. 133 Eleven or twelve species are already known. At Paris alone, we nave found one the size of a Horse, anotbcrthat of a Tapir, and a third of a small Sheep: the bones of a species nearly equalling; the Rhinoceros in sizehave been met with in the neighbourhood of Orleans, lliese animals appear to have frequented the bordersof lakes and marshes, for the deposits which enclose their remains contain also those of freshwater shells. (S
The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . Sliplland f„„v PACHYDERMATA. 133 Eleven or twelve species are already known. At Paris alone, we nave found one the size of a Horse, anotbcrthat of a Tapir, and a third of a small Sheep: the bones of a species nearly equalling; the Rhinoceros in sizehave been met with in the neighbourhood of Orleans, lliese animals appear to have frequented the bordersof lakes and marshes, for the deposits which enclose their remains contain also those of freshwater shells. (Seemy OMemcn* /ossiies, torn, iii.) The Lophiodons—Form another extinct genus, which appears to have been closely allied to tlie preceding one ; but theinferior incisors of which exhibit transverse ridges. Ten or t^velvc species have been exhumed fromthe same ancient freshwater deposit:> that have yielded the Palaiotheriums. To these last genera succeeds that of The Tapirs {Tapir, Lin.),—\Mierein the twenty-seven molars, before they are worn, present transverse and rectilinear ridges;tliere are six incisors and two canin
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