CH@ROPOTAMUS CUVIERI. 413 
PACHYDERMATA. CH@ROPOTAMUS. 
Fig. 163. 
Lower jaw of Cheropotamus Cuvieri, 4 nat. size. Eocene marl, Isle of Wight. 
An outline of upper jaw from Cuvier. 
CUVIERS CHQ£ROPOTAMUS. — Cheropotamus 
Cuvieri. 
Cheeropotame, Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to. 1822, p. 360, 
pl. li. fig 3, a, B, c, pl. Ixviii. fig. 1. 
Cheropotamus Gypsorum, DesMAREST, Mammalogie, p. 545. 
99 Cuvieri, Owen, Geological Transactions, second series, 
vol. vi. p. 41, pl. iv. 
SEVERAL interesting forms of Pachyderms with toes in 
even number, as Anthracotherium, (Cuvier,) Merycopotamus 
and Hippohyus, (Cautley and Falconer,) which filled up 
the wide interval that now divides the Hippopotamus from 
the Hog, formerly existed, and have left their remains in 
more ancient tertiary deposits than those containing the 
fossil Hippopotamus. Hitherto no remains of these genera 
have been detected in Britain ; and the nearest link which 
the fossils of our island aftord in the transition from the 
Hippopotamus to the Hog-tribe, is presented by the Cha- 
ropotamus. This quadruped must have resembled the 
Peceari, but was about one third larger: it was the earliest 
form of the Hog-tribe introduced upon our planet. 
