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SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF MAMMALIA, 



The Anoplotherium. 



Our figures give Cuvier's restoration of the outlines of 

 two species of the extinct group of Pachydermata termed 

 Anoplotherium, the fossil relics of which, mixed with 

 those of the Palaeotherium, occur in the gypsum-quarries 

 near Paris, and also, though more rarely, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Orleans and Genoa. These Anoplotheria 

 are remarkable for the characters of their dentition ; the 

 teeth consist in each jaw of six incisors, two canines, 

 and fourteen molars, reckoning both sides together ; and 

 these are arranged in a continued and uninterrupted 

 series ; without any vacancy between the incisors and 

 the canines, or between the canines and the molars. 

 The canines resemble the incisors in form, and might be 



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mistaken for them ; the four posterior molars are like 

 those of the rhinoceros. The feet are cloven as in the 

 deer, being divided into two toes, sheathed with a hoof 

 at the extremity ; in the deer and other Ruminants the 

 metacarpal and metatarsal bones are blended into a single 

 canon-bone, but in the Anoplotherium they are sepa- 

 rate as in the hog. Allied to the Pachydermata in some 

 points, and in others to the Ruminantia, the Anoplotheria 



