The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . PACHYDERMATA. 138 Eleven or twelve species are already known. At Paris alone, we nave found one the size of a Horse, anotherthat of a Tapir, and a third of a small Sheep : the bones of a species nearly equallins^ the Rhinoceros in sizehave been met with in the neighbourhood of Orleans. These animals appear to have frequented the bordersof lakes and marshes, for the deposits which enclose their remains contain also those of freshwater shells. (
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . PACHYDERMATA. 138 Eleven or twelve species are already known. At Paris alone, we nave found one the size of a Horse, anotherthat of a Tapir, and a third of a small Sheep : the bones of a species nearly equallins^ the Rhinoceros in sizehave been met with in the neighbourhood of Orleans. These animals appear to have frequented the bordersof lakes and marshes, for the deposits which enclose their remains contain also those of freshwater shells. (Seemy Ossemens fussites, torn, iii.) The Lophiodons—Form another extinct genus, which appears to have been closely allied to the preceding one ; but theinferior incisors of which exhibit transverse ridges. Ten or twelve species have been exhumed fromthe same ancient freshwater deposits that have yielded the Palasoiheriums. To these last genera succeeds that of The Tapirs {Tapir, Lin.),—Wherein the twenty-seven molars, before they are worn, present transverse and rectilinear ridges ;there are six incisors and two canines in eac
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