UXGULATA. 



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ml being most worn ; the mandibular symphj'sis was elongated but not 

 so long as in the last genus, and the basis cranii and facial region of the 

 maxilla longer. 



Moeritherium Andrews, IMiddle and Upper Eocene of Fa^ am ; den- 

 tition i I c ^ JO f TO f ; i 2 in the upper jaw is tusk-like though not 

 so large as in the other genera, il and i3 are small as is the canine ; in the 

 lower jaw i2 

 is larger than 

 il, iS being 

 absent ; the 

 premolars are 

 cuspidate and 

 the molars 

 bilophodont 

 (quadri tuber- 

 cular). Tliis is 

 the ordinary 

 dentition, save 

 for the absence 

 of pi in the 

 upper jaw and 

 of i3, c and pi 

 in the lower. 

 The mandibu- 

 lar symphysis 

 is but slightly 

 elongated. 



Barytherium 

 Andrews, M. 

 Eocene. 



Pyrotherium 

 Am., from the 

 Cretaceous 

 (Eocene) of 

 Patagonia has 

 been claimed 

 as a member 

 of this order. 



Fig 295. — SkuU of Binotlierium giganleuin, from the Lower Pliocene 

 (after Kaiip, from Flower and Lydekker). p3, 4 premolars ; 

 1, 2, 3 molars. 



Order 8. UNGULATA. 



Usually hoofed, digitigrade animals in which the digits of the 

 pes never exceed four and the carpal and tarsal bones interlock. 

 There is no os centrale in the carpus and no entepicondylar 

 foramen in the humerus, and clavicles are always absent. The 

 scapula is usually devoid of an acromion. The placenta is 

 disuse or cotyledonary, the mammae inguinal or abdominal, and 

 the testes always descend into a scrotum. 



The Ungulata as thus defined includes the Perissodactyla, and 

 Artiodactyla and excludes absolutely the Proboscidea and 



