. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . Skeleton of the Mastodon [liganteus, from Missouri, in the British Museum. CORYPHODON EOC^NUS. 299 PACHYDERM ATA. TAPIROIDA. Fhj. 102. Portion of lower jaw of Coryphodon from eocene clay, Essex side, § nat. size. CORYPHODON EOO^NUS. Eocene Coiypliodou. Large LopModon, Owen, Report of Britisli Association, 1843. It is not surprising that the rare and extraordinaryforms of Mammalia, which supply the transitional linksconnecting the proboscidian with the tapiroid families ofPacJiydermata, should have escaped observation; if, in-deed,
. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . Skeleton of the Mastodon [liganteus, from Missouri, in the British Museum. CORYPHODON EOC^NUS. 299 PACHYDERM ATA. TAPIROIDA. Fhj. 102. Portion of lower jaw of Coryphodon from eocene clay, Essex side, § nat. size. CORYPHODON EOO^NUS. Eocene Coiypliodou. Large LopModon, Owen, Report of Britisli Association, 1843. It is not surprising that the rare and extraordinaryforms of Mammalia, which supply the transitional linksconnecting the proboscidian with the tapiroid families ofPacJiydermata, should have escaped observation; if, in-deed, they exist in this country, where those tertiaryformations, in which alone on the continent their remainshave hitherto been found, are sparingly or not at alldeveloped. No remains of I)in(>therium, or gigantic 300 TAPIROIDA. Tapir of Cuvler, for example, have as yet been found inthe older pliocene crag of England; although the asso-ciation of this gigantic Pachyderm with the Mastodonangustidens, in the contemporary formations of Eppels-heim and France, has been attested by numerous andwell preserved fossils, including the entire cranium. The molar teeth of the Dinothere had
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