The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology . these present very great differences from the tooth underdiscussion. The measurements of the tooth are : — cm. Length 7-9 Breadth, front half 3-7 „ hind half 3-7 Brachj/odus (?) obtusus, sp. n. (Fig. ?•) This tooth is also a third left lower molar. It is a stouttooth, very brachydont and bunodont. Its chief peculiarity, Fig. 7. if. however lies in its shape, the front half being much broaderthan the hind hall, which gives it a striking appearance. Anthracotheres and allied Forms. 521 The talonid is broad, tliere is an
The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology . these present very great differences from the tooth underdiscussion. The measurements of the tooth are : — cm. Length 7-9 Breadth, front half 3-7 „ hind half 3-7 Brachj/odus (?) obtusus, sp. n. (Fig. ?•) This tooth is also a third left lower molar. It is a stouttooth, very brachydont and bunodont. Its chief peculiarity, Fig. 7. if. however lies in its shape, the front half being much broaderthan the hind hall, which gives it a striking appearance. Anthracotheres and allied Forms. 521 The talonid is broad, tliere is an absence of secondary cuspsin the transverse valleys, and no cingulum, except a smallledge at the front outer edge. The centres of the cusps lierather close together, and their sides slope very graduallydown to the level of the :— cm. Length 5-7 Breadth, front half 3-6 „ hind half 3-0 Hyotherium (?) Jeffrey si, sp. n. (Fig. 8.) The type-specimen is a fragment of a palate showing thesecond and third premolars on the right side and the thirdand fourth premolars and first two molars on the left. The molars are square in shape, with a stout cingulum infront, which in the first molar continues outside and behind,while in the second it ceases round the metacone, to reappearas a small tubercle on the middle of the hinder border. Thecusps are all conical, except that the protocone an
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