

HYRACODON 



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molar teeth are strikingly like those of the genus Rhinoceros. 

 The fore-feet are pentadactyle, but functionally tetradactyle ; 



the hind -feet tridactyle. The ulna is less reduced than in 

 Hyracodon, and the dorso-lumbar vertebrae are twenty-five. 



The Amynodonts were short, heavy types, probably marsh - 

 haunting in habit, and possibly with a proboscis like that of the 

 Tapir. The orbit is higher than it is in the purely terrestrial 



