462 THE WASATCH FAUNA. 



M. 

 Length of fourth 023 



Proximal diameters 5 ^«''*''=*1 "" 



c transverse Olo 



IV. — Second phalanges. 



Length on third digit 017 



Proximal width 017 



Distal width 016 



Distal depth 007 



Length on fourth digit 015 



vertical 010 



Proximal diameters . „,. 



transverse . .Ulo 



V. — Ungual phalanges. 

 Length of first 014 



Proximal J d'^Pt'^ ""^ 



width 009 



Length of second 022 



P™i.aU'"P"' '"' 



i 



width 014 



Width at shoulder 015 



Length of third 024 



„ . i^depth -• 010 



Proximal I y 



I width oia 



Width at shoulder 019 



Length of fourth 021 



Proximal ?1«^Ptl^ ^"^ 



width 013 



Width at shoulder 0145 



Length of fifth 013 



width 009 



^'°"*""M depth 008 



Width at shoulder ^- 009 



Bestoration. — The foregoing measurements show that this species was 

 as large as a big-horn ; that its body was rather longer than in that animal, 

 and its legs shorter and more robust. It was in fact proportioned more as 

 in the common American tapir, but was of smaller size. The middle three 

 toes of both feet reached the ground, while the first and fifth projected lat- 

 erally and posteriorly, like the dew-claws of the hogs. The tail was longer 

 and hpavier than that of any of the living hoofed mammals, resembling in its 

 proportions that of the wolf. The eyes were small and the muzzle long, 

 but was singularly soft above near the extremity. Whether this soft part 

 was pierced by valvular nostrils, as in the hippopotamus, or was produced 

 into a short proboscis, as in the saiga or in the tapir, cannot be certainly 

 ascertained, but there are indications of the insertion of important cartilages, 

 if not muscles, on the superior faces of the premaxillary bones. 



