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Palaeotherium curtum, Cuvier 1 . 

 Syn. Palceotherium duvali, Pomel *. 



This species was originally described as being rather more than 

 one third smaller than P. medium. In the skull figured in De 

 Blainville's ' Osteographie,' genus Palceoiherium, pi. i., and in the 

 mandible figured by Gervais in the Zool. et Pal. Franchises, 2nd ed. 

 pi. xvi. figs. 3, 3 a under this name (the plate is lettered P. minus), 

 pm. 4 and pm . 3 are as complex as the succeeding teeth. The former 

 feature is shown in a right maxilla figured by Filhol in the Ann. 

 Sci. Geol. vol. viii. art. 1, pi. xx. fig. 345 as belonging to the present 

 species ; in this specimen the length of the space occupied by the 

 seven teeth is 0,096. In a mandibular ramus figured under this 

 name by the same writer (op. cit. pi. xv. figs. 300, 301) pm. 3 is 

 less complex than pm . 4, and pm . 1 is absent; and the specimen 

 seems more like the mandible of P. annectans. The diastema is 

 short. 



Hub. Europe. 



M. 1392. Fragment of a right maxilla, containing the last three 

 premolars, provisionally referred to this species ; from the 

 Upper Eocene of Caylux (Tarn-et-Garonne), France. This 

 specimen agrees precisely with the one figured by Filhol 

 in the Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. viii. art. 1, pi. xx. fig. 345. 



Purchased, 1884. 



11848. Cast of the right third metatarsal. The original is from 

 the Upper Eocene of Montmartre, and is figured in Cuvier's 

 ' Ossemens Fossiles,' 2nd ed. vol. iii. pi. xlii. fig. 6, and in 

 De Blainville's ' Osteographie,' genus Palceoiherium, pi. iv. 

 Its length is 0,0655. 



Mantell Collection. Purchased, 1836. 



28237. The proximal extremity of an ulna and a lateral metapodial, 

 provisionally referred to this species; from the Upper 

 Eocene of Debruge, near Apt (Vaucluse), France. 



Bravard Collection. Purchased, 1852. 



1 Ossemens Fossiles, 2nd ed. vol. iii. p. 68 (1822). 



2 Catalogue Methodique, p. 81 (1853). 



