THE EXTINCT DINOCERAS 



Titanotherium, is shown in Fig. 101, and in 

 Figs. 102 and 103 photographic views of the 

 skull are given. 



As large as the rhinoceros, but having a very 

 different arrangement of the bones of its wrists 

 and ankles, and very different teeth and horns, 



Flu. 103. — Side-view of tlie skull of Titanotherium, to show 

 the two bony iipgrowths of the nasal region which 

 carried horns. Photographed from a specimen in the 

 NatLU'al History Museum. 



are the extraordinary creatures known as 

 Dinoceras, whole skeletons of which have been 

 disinterred from the Upper Eocene of Wyoming 

 in the United States. As many as two hundred 

 individuals were studied by Professor Marsh, 

 who has written a large treatise on them. 

 These creatures had three pairs of horns on the 



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