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those of many great quadrupeds, such as the elephant, mastodon, 

 rhinoceros, horse, camel, giraffe, sivatherium, and many other 

 mammals. The Sivalik fauna also included a great number of 

 reptiles, such as crocodiles, lizards, and snakes. 



The greater part of the remains of the Colossochelys atlas were 



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Fig. 48. — Restored figure of gigantic tortoise, Colossochelys atlas, froni 

 the Sivalik Hills, Northern India. 



collected during a period of eight or nine years, along a range of 

 about a hundred miles of hilly country. Consequently, they belong 

 to a large number of individuals, varying in size and age. They 

 were met with in crushed fragments, contained in upheaved 

 strata, which have undergone considerable disturbance^ so that it 



