Skull, tooth and illustration of a Dinotherium

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Skull, tooth and fanciful illustration of a Dinotherium, shown as a kind of seal-like creature. Deinotherium, an extinct relative to the elephant. Lithograph by an unknown artist from Dr. Schmidt's "Petrefactenbuch," published in Stuttgart, Germany, 1855 by Verlag von Krais & Hoffmann. Dr. Schmidt's "Book of Petrification" introduced fossils and palaeontology to both the specialist and general reader.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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