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Fig. 171. — Above: Typical scene in western North America during the Lower 

 Oligocene time, showing a small herd of titanotheres of the genus Brontotherium. 

 The individual in the foreground is a male. Below : A skeleton of a female 

 Brontotherium gigas from South Dakota. Note the small nasal horns in compari- 

 son with their tremendous development in the male above. (From Osborn.) 



