358 HISTORICAL PALAEONTOLOGY. 
hair more than a foot in length. The teeth of the Mammoth 
(fig. 267) are of the type of those of the existing Indian Ele- 
phant, and are found in immense numbers in certain localities. 
Post-Pliocene. 
Portions of the integument still adhere 
les is still attached to the feet. 
—Skeleton of the Mammoth (Zlephas primigenius). 
to the head, and the thick skin of the so 
Fig. 266. 
The Mammoth was essentially northern in its distribution, 
never passing south of a line drawn through the Pyrenees, the 
Alps, the northern shores of the Caspian, Lake Baikal, Kam- 
