. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . Coryphodon eocfenus, § nat. size. LOPITIODON MINIMUS. 811 PA CHYDERMA TA. TAPIROIDA. Fig. Second and fourth molars, nat. size. Eocene Clay, Brackleshani. LOPHIODON MINIMUS. Dwarf Lopliiodon. Trh-iietite espece de LopJiiodo?/., Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to. 1822. 1. p. 194. The first announcement of the former existence of asmall Tapiroid Pachyderm, in the eocene deposits of Eng-land, on the sole evidence of two molar teeth, will notbe received without scrupulous examination of its validityby Comparative Anatomists, who know
. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . Coryphodon eocfenus, § nat. size. LOPITIODON MINIMUS. 811 PA CHYDERMA TA. TAPIROIDA. Fig. Second and fourth molars, nat. size. Eocene Clay, Brackleshani. LOPHIODON MINIMUS. Dwarf Lopliiodon. Trh-iietite espece de LopJiiodo?/., Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to. 1822. 1. p. 194. The first announcement of the former existence of asmall Tapiroid Pachyderm, in the eocene deposits of Eng-land, on the sole evidence of two molar teeth, will notbe received without scrupulous examination of its validityby Comparative Anatomists, who know how many andvarious Mammalia resemble the Tapirs in the configura-tion of the crown of the molar teeth, especially those ofthe lower jaw, to which the fossils in question belong. The proboscidian Dinothere, the marsupial Notothereand Diprotodon, amongst the extinct Mammalia; theKangaroo and the Cetaceous Manatee amongst the living-forms of the class, participate with the Tapirs, both recentand extinct, in having the grinding surface of the molarteeth developed into two principal transverse ridges, asshewn in the fossil molar tooth, fig. 107
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