436 ANOPLOTHERIUM. 
(fi 
GQ 
179), which was recognised by Dr. Buckland and 
Fig. 179. Mr. Pentland, as belonging to the Ano- 
plotherium commune, is the first of the 
true molars. 
These teeth consist, like those of the 
Paleotherium, of two semi-cylindrical 
lobes; but they are more deeply pene- 
Tibtres inclarstactln mat. trated by narrower enamel folds on their 
size. Anoplotherium inner side, and are relatively broader 
commune. Binstead, 
Isle of Wight. transversely, when worn down to the 
same extent, than those of the Paleotherium, as will be 
obvious by comparing fig. 179 with fig. 116. The last 
lower molar tooth has a third small posterior lobe, as in the 
Ruminants and the Paleotherium. 
A general idea of the character of the chief bones of 
the skeleton may be obtained from the reduced view in cut 
175. By comparing it with cut 109, it will be seen that 
the thigh-bone differs from that (/) of the Paleothere in 
the absence of the third trochanter. The fore-part of the 
astragalus of the Anoplothere differs from that of the 
Paleeothere in the same way as the astragalus of the Hippo- 
potamus differs from that of the Rhinoceros. The almost 
equal bipartition of the fore-part of the bone, indicates 
that the toes of the hind-foot of the Anoplothere were in 
equal number ; and the fossil specimens have shewn them 
to be two in both fore and hind feet, as in the Ruminants. 
But the metacarpus and metatarsus, (7% m,) mstead of 
consisting each of a single ‘cannon-bone, were divided 
lengthwise, the two primitively separate bones continuing 
distinct throughout life in the Anoplothere.* 
* This condition of the metacarpals and metatarsals has been observed in the 
exceptional instance of the existing African Moschus aquaticus, and in an ex- 
tinct Ruminant of the Sewalik Hills, by Dr. Falconer, the distinguished eluci- 
dator of the Himalayan Fossils. 
