. The ancient life-history of the earth; a comprehensive outline of the principles and leading facts of palaeontological science. Paleontology. 304 HISTORICAL PALEONTOLOGY. sheath. The nose was not prolonged into a proboscis or *' trunk," as in the existing Elephants 3 and the tail was short. Fig. 232.—Skull oi Dinoceras mirabilis, greatly reduced. Eocene, North America. (After Marsh.) and slender. Many forms of the Diiiocerata are known ; but all these singular and gigantic quadrupeds appear to have been confined to the North American continent, and to be restricted to the Eocene period.
. The ancient life-history of the earth; a comprehensive outline of the principles and leading facts of palaeontological science. Paleontology. 304 HISTORICAL PALEONTOLOGY. sheath. The nose was not prolonged into a proboscis or *' trunk," as in the existing Elephants 3 and the tail was short. Fig. 232.—Skull oi Dinoceras mirabilis, greatly reduced. Eocene, North America. (After Marsh.) and slender. Many forms of the Diiiocerata are known ; but all these singular and gigantic quadrupeds appear to have been confined to the North American continent, and to be restricted to the Eocene period. The important order of the Elephants {Prohoscidea) is also not known to have come into existence during the Eocene period. On the other hand, the great order of the Beasts of Prey iyCarnivora) is represented in Eocene strata by several forms belonging to different types. Thus the Afrfocyon pre- sents us with an Eocene Carnivore more or less closely allied to the existing Racoons ; the Fa/cEonyctis appears to be related to the recent Civet-cats; the genus Hycenodon is in some respects comparable to the living Hyaenas ; and the Canis Parisiensis of the gypsum-bearing beds of !Montmartre may perhaps be allied to the Foxes. The order of the Bats {Cheiroptera) is represented in Eocene strata of the Paris basin (Gypseous series of Montmartre) by the Vespertilio Parisiensis (fig. 233), an insect-eating Bat very similar to some of the existing European forms. Lastly, the Eocene deposits have yielded more or less satisfactory evi-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Nicholson, Henry Alleyne, 1844-1899. New York, A. L. Fowle
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