. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palontology in the British Museum (Natural history) ... With 6 plates and 88 text-figures . Skin of Extinct C^round-sloth (GriipotJicrium listai) from a Cavern nearLast Hope Inlet, Patagonia; one-sixth nat. size. The outer side (A)hoars coarse hair ; the inner side (B) exhibits small nodules of boneimbedded in the substance of the skin. (Table-case 15a.) [To /ace p. 74. MAMMALIA. io representati\es. They exhiljit great variety, Init their coat Wall-caseof mail (carapace) is always rigid, not divided into the over- m iS^
. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palontology in the British Museum (Natural history) ... With 6 plates and 88 text-figures . Skin of Extinct C^round-sloth (GriipotJicrium listai) from a Cavern nearLast Hope Inlet, Patagonia; one-sixth nat. size. The outer side (A)hoars coarse hair ; the inner side (B) exhibits small nodules of boneimbedded in the substance of the skin. (Table-case 15a.) [To /ace p. 74. MAMMALIA. io representati\es. They exhiljit great variety, Init their coat Wall-caseof mail (carapace) is always rigid, not divided into the over- m iS^ 7G GUIDE TO THE F08SII- MAMMALS AND BIKD8. Wall-case lapping cross-bands whicli enable the surviving armadillosT bi^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^^^ when attacked. Glyptodon (Fig. 70) is 14b. one of the best known genera, and owes its name ( sculpturedCase Z. tooth) to the circumstance that hard and soft portionsalternate in the teeth, thus imparting a sculptured ai)pearanceto their grinding surface. The actual armour of a linespecimen is mounted, with a plaster cast of the skeleton, inCase Z. As here exhibited the total length of the animal,measured along the curve of the back, is 11 feet 6 inches ;while the body shield or carapace measures 7 feet in lengthby 9 feet across. The armour oliviously consists of smallbony rosettes or bosses compacted together, and it must havebeen originally covered with a thin outer skin. There is alittle shield on the top of the head; and the covering of thetail is arranged in successive, overlapping rings. At timesof danger, the animal would probably be al)le to d
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