EXTINCT ANIMALS 



that it could not have had a depending trunk 

 like an elephant has and such as the short- jawed 

 mastodons certainly must have had. Its 

 " trunk " must have rested horizontallv on the 



Fig. 81. — The skull of Dinotherium giganteum, Kaup, from 

 the Miocene of Eppelsheini, near Worms, on the Rhine. 



long lower jaw between the upper tusks — and 

 was in fact not a " trunk " at all, but an elon- 

 gated upper lip (Fig. 82) — representing the 

 middle part of the upper jaw in a soft, flexible 



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