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the elephant’s. This creature has also been described under the 
name of Titanotherium. (See Plate XLIII.) 
One of the strangest of quadrupeds ever discovered by geologists 
was the huge and fierce beast known as Arsinoétherium of which 
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Fic. 99.—Skull and lower jaw of Arsinoétheriwm, from the Upper Eocene of the 
Fayim, Kgypt. 
the skull is shown in Fig. 99, and a restoration in Plate XLIII. 
The remains were found by Mr. Beadnell of the Egyptian 
Geological Survey in the Upper Eocene Sands of the Fayim? 
district. The only parts missing appear to be the ribs and the 
toes. The skull was nearly three feet long, and although some 
1 See Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of the Fayiim, Kgypt. By 
C. W. Andrews, D.Sc. Published by Trustees of British Museum. 
