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No. 43. [112] Dinotherium giganteum, Kaup. 



Skull and Lower Jaw (cast). This huge beast, though its teeth were 

 discovered more than a century ago. has scarcely found a resting-place lu the 

 classification of animals. Cuvier called it a gigantic Tapir; DeBlainville and 



Pictet considered it an aquatic": Herlnvore, re.sembling the Dugong, and in- 

 habiting the embouchures of great rivers; Kaup regarded it as intermediate 

 between the Tapir and Mastodon, and truly terrestrial ; while Owen says, that 

 "in the general shape of the skull and aspect of the nostril, the DinotJiermm 

 most resembles the Manatee, but bones of the limb have been found so asso- 

 ciated with teeth as to determine the DinotJiermm to be a hoofed quadruped 

 of probably aquatic habits, and transitional, as it would seem, between the large 



