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covered only three or four fairly good skeletons have been found. In limbs, 

 shoulder and pelvic girdles and essential structure of the skull and in the 

 number of joints of the toes, they strikingly resemble the mammals and 

 although the curious development of the beak obscures the mammal-like 

 character of the skull it is essentially built on the mammalian plan and there 

 is little doubt that although the Anomodonts are a side offshoot from the 

 mammalian stem they are closely allied to the mammalian ancestor. 



A form nearly allied to Dicynodon is called Endothiodon. It has no 



Endothiodon uniseries Owen, 

 skeleton [see page 340] 



A more perfect skull than that belonging to the mounted 



large tusk but a number of small teeth. Although much rarer than Dicy- 

 nodon, fortunately an almost complete skeleton has been discovered which 

 has recently been mounted in the Museum laboratories by Mr. Charles 

 Falkenbach under my direction, and of which a photograph is given. The 

 extremely mammal-like condition of the limbs is very manifest, and there 

 is little doubt that the animal waddled about somewhat after the manner of 

 the pigmy hippopotami of Liberia, seen at the New York Zoological Park. 



