. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . , the only animal known at the time in which the teethformed one connected series, without any breaks or interveningspaces, and all of uniform height, a character then thought tobe peculiar to man. The genus was first described by Cuvierfrom numerous remains (referred to several distinct species)exhumed from the Gypsum-beds at Montmartre, Paris. * Owen, Brit. Foss. Mamm. p. 413, fig. ] Hence the name Coal-beast. X From ai07r\oc, weaponless, and 9/jpiov, beast
. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . , the only animal known at the time in which the teethformed one connected series, without any breaks or interveningspaces, and all of uniform height, a character then thought tobe peculiar to man. The genus was first described by Cuvierfrom numerous remains (referred to several distinct species)exhumed from the Gypsum-beds at Montmartre, Paris. * Owen, Brit. Foss. Mamm. p. 413, fig. ] Hence the name Coal-beast. X From ai07r\oc, weaponless, and 9/jpiov, beast, in allusion to its hayingneither tusks, horns, nor claws. Fig. 54c—A right uppertrue molar of Meryco-■potamus dissimilis (F. <fc C.) from thePliocene of India. Artiodactyla —Xiphodon, Dichodon, etc. 47 Here may be eimmerated Xiphodon, from Montmartre, Xiphodon. Caylux, and Vauclnse in France ; also Dicliodon and Dicho- £~c£°6on bunus, from the Isle of Wig-lit and Hampshire, and from Ceenotheri- Montmartre and Vaucluse, France; CcenotJierwim, a genus of animals about the size of liaises and rabbits, whose. Fig. 55.—The last five right upper cheek-teeth of Anoploherium cayluxense (Lydekker),from the Upper Eocene of Caylux, France, \.
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