310 TAPIROIDA. 
drupeds ; and, as it is a little longer in proportion to its 
breadth than the middle phalanx of the fore-foot of the 
Palaotherium magnum, figured by Cuvier, ‘ Ossemens Fos- 
siles, 4to, 1822, pl. xlix, fig. 6, it may probably have be- 
longed to a Lophiodon or Coryphodon. 1 owe to Sir 
Philip Egerton a knowledge of this rare specimen; and 
to the Marchioness of Hastings, of whose choice collec- 
tion of Fossil Remains it forms part, the permission to 
describe and figure it for the present work. 
Subjomed is an inside view of the unique specimen 
of the jaw of the great Tapiroid Pachyderm, from the 
eocene clay near Harwich. 
Fig. 107. 
Coryphodon eoceenus, 2 nat. size. 
