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ANATOMY OF VERTEBRATES. 



the anterior talon being most produced and compressed in the 



first tooth, ]> 2. 



Certain huge fossil bilophodont grinders, which seemed to indicate 

 a gigantic Tapir, are now known, by the discovery of the cranium, 

 and the enormous tusks of the lower jaw, fig. 288, /, to belong to 

 a genus connecting the tapiroid with the proboscidian families. 



The permanent dentition of the genus Dinotherium is- 



. o.o o.o 2.2 3.3 



1.1 



The two deciduous molars in situ on each side of the fragment ot 

 the upper jaw of the young Dinotherium, which Professor Kaup 1 

 has figured, answer to the third and fourth of the typical series. 

 The crown of the anterior milk-molar supports two transverse 





288 



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Dentition of Dinotherium (.Kaup). 



ridges with an anterior and posterior basal ridge; its contour is 

 almost square ; the last milk-molar has a greater antero-poste- 

 rior extent, and supports three transverse eminences with an 

 anterior and posterior basal ridge, the anterior ridge being 

 developed into a pointed tubercle at its outer end. The two 

 premolars, fig. 288, p 3 and 4, conform to the general rule in 

 being more simple than the teeth which they displace and suc- 

 ceed. The transverse diameter of the second premolar exceeds the 

 antero-posterior one, the proportions being the reverse of those of 

 the deciduous molar, which it displaces. The first true molar, m 

 i, repeats the structure of the hindmost deciduous molar, its crown 



1 CLXIX", p. 401 ; and cxm". Tab. i. 



