MASTODON ANGUSTIDENS. DAI 
PACHYDERMATA. PROBOSCIDIA, 
Fig. 96. 
Upper and lower jaws of the Mastodon angustidens, from Epplesheim, after Kaup. 
MASTODON ANGUSTIDENS. Narrow-toothed 
Mastodon. 
Mastodonte a dents étroites, Cuvier, Annales du Muséum, tom. viii., Osse- 
mens Fossils, tom. i. 4to, 1821. 
Mastodon Avernensis, Crozer and Joperr, Ossem. Foss. du Puy de 
Dome, 4to. 1828. 
longirostris, Kaup, Ossem. Fosse de Mammiféres de Darm- 
stadt. 1836. 
: angustidens, Owen, Report of British Association, 1843. 
Narurauists are most familiar with that gigantic type 
of quadrupeds called, from the peculiar prehensile develop- 
ment of the nose and upper lip, “‘ proboscidian,” as it is 
manifested by the existing species of Elephants which 
have been at different times introduced into Europe from 
