CORYPHODON EOCHNUS. 299 
PACH YDERMATA, TAPIROIDA. 
Fig. 103. 
Portion of lower jaw of Coryphodon from eocene clay, Essex coast. 
Inner side, $ nat. size. 
CORYPHODON EOCAENUS. Eocene Coryphodon. 
Large Lophiodon, OweEN, Report of British Association, 1843. 
Iv is not surprising that the rare and extraordinary 
forms of Mammalia, which supply the transitional links 
connecting the proboscidian with the tapiroid families of 
Pachydermata, should have escaped observation; if, in- 
deed, they exist in this country, where those tertiary 
formations, m which alone on the continent their remains 
have hitherto been found, are sparingly or not at all 
developed. No remains of Dinotherium, or gigantic 
