. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . Fig. 46.—The left maxilla, with the cheek-dentition of Paloplotherium annectens (Owen);from the Upper Eocene of Hordwell, Hampshire. 2p, Sp, 4p, = premolars; la, 2a, 3a,true molars; £, e, outer, I, i, inner, and M, m, middle columns, (after Gaudry). The remains of the smaller species (P. minus) are also metwith at Vaucluse. 38 Perissodactyla—Anchilophus, Anchitherium, etc. Anchilo-phus. Anchithe-rium. Table-case,No. 5. Hyracothe-rium. Pier-case,No. 9. Pliolophus.
. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . Fig. 46.—The left maxilla, with the cheek-dentition of Paloplotherium annectens (Owen);from the Upper Eocene of Hordwell, Hampshire. 2p, Sp, 4p, = premolars; la, 2a, 3a,true molars; £, e, outer, I, i, inner, and M, m, middle columns, (after Gaudry). The remains of the smaller species (P. minus) are also metwith at Vaucluse. 38 Perissodactyla—Anchilophus, Anchitherium, etc. Anchilo-phus. Anchithe-rium. Table-case,No. 5. Hyracothe-rium. Pier-case,No. 9. Pliolophus. Pier-case,No. 9. Fig. 47.—The right upper truemolars of Anchitheriwm Bairdi(Leidy), from the Miocene of Dakota,N. America. Anchilophus, a small Paleeothere, is represented by jaws andteetli from the Upper Eocene at Bemtnidge, Isle of Wight, andfrom Vancluse and Caylux in France. The Miocene genus, Anchitherium, is interesting as presentingmany characters intermediate between the Pquidce and Palceo-theriidce. The bones of the extremities, especially the feet,resemble the corresponding parts in Hipparion; but Anchitheriumwas a much smaller animal. The feet had three toes; thecentral toe on each foot was long and strong-, and mainly sup-ported the weight of the body; the lateral toes were slender,with small terminal hoofs. Remains of Anchitherium aure-lianense are not uncommon in theMiocene deposits at Sansan, Gers,Trance, of which a characteristicseries of teeth and bones is Bairdi is a smaller species from theWhite River beds (Miocene age) ofNebraska territory, North America. Other gener
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