316 PAL-BOTHERIUM, 
PACHYDERMATA. PALMOTHERIUM. 
Skeleton of Paleotherium magnum, as restored by Cuvier. 
; : 
Ath nat. size. 
PALA.OTHERIUM MAGNUM. The Great 
Paleothere. 
Paleotherium magnum, Cuvier, Annales du Muséum, iii. pp. 365, 442. vi. 
p- 265. ix. pp. 15, 29 ; Ossemens Fossiles, tom. iii. 
Tur genus Palaotherium was founded by Cuvier, and 
several species restored by the masterly determinations of 
the detached and fragmentary fossils successively disco- 
vered in the gypsum quarries of Montmartre, and sub- 
mitted to the great Anatomist, who may be said to have 
based the science of Paleontology on the immortal Me- 
moirs descriptive of the present and allied extinct Pachy- 
derms of the Paris Basin, which form the third volume of 
the 4to. editions of the ‘ Ossemens Fossiles.’ 
The dental formula of the genus Paleotherium, is:—i. $3, 
1—1 = = ° O20 
C. 1-1, p- 4-4, m. 33, = 44;—that is, there are three incisors 
