LOPHIODON MINIMUS, Sah 
PACHYDERMATA. TAPIROIDA. 
Fig. 108. 
Second and fourth molars, nat. size. Eocene Clay, Bracklesham. 
LOPHIODON MINIMUS. Dwarf Lophiodon. 
Trés-petite espéce de Lophiodon, Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to. 1822. 
Vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 194. 
Tue first announcement of the former existence of a 
small Tapiroid Pachyderm, in the eocene deposits of Eng- 
land, on the sole evidence of two molar teeth, will not 
be received without scrupulous examination of its validity 
by Comparative Anatomists, who know how many and 
various Mammalia resemble the Tapirs in the configura- 
tion of the crown of the molar teeth, especially those of 
the lower jaw, to which the fossils mm question belong. 
The proboscidian Dinothere, the marsupial Notothere 
and Diprotodon, amongst the extinct Mammalia; the 
Kangaroo and the Cetaceous Manatee amongst the living 
forms of the class, participate with the Tapirs, both recent 
and extinct, in having the grinding surface of the molar 
teeth developed into two principal transverse ridges, as 
shewn in the fossil molar tooth, fig. 107, @ and 4. But, 
setting aside the Dinothere and the large extinct marsupial 
