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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 
Fic. 48.—Restored figure of gigantic tortoise, Colossochelys atlas, from 
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 
