TJINTATHERIID^;. 



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Section DIXOCEKATA. 



The superior incisors are absent, and there is no third trochanter 

 to the femur. The cranium carries several pairs of large protu- 

 berances ; the upper canines of the males are of large size, and are 

 frequently protected by a descending mandibular flange l . 



Family UINTATHERIID^E. 



This is the only family at present known. The hinder upper 

 premolars are as complex as the true molars (woodcut, fig. 28), and 

 Fig. 28. 



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Tinoceras stenops, Marsh. The left upper and lower cheek-dentition ; from 

 the Eocene of North America. J. (From Marsh's ' Monograph of the 

 Dinocerata.') 



there is no distinct third lobe to m . 3 ; in the last five upper cheek- 

 teeth the two transverse ridges unite on the inner border of the 

 crown to form a single V; a very similar Y, with the angle directed 

 inwards, occurring in the corresponding lower teeth. According to 

 Marsh 2 there are always three lower incisors, but Cope states 3 that in 

 some members of the type genus Uintatherium (in which Cope in- 

 cludes Dinoceras) they are reduced to two or even one. In the 

 present Catalogue the generic divisions adopted by Marsh are pro- 

 visionally accepted, although it seems very doubtful whether their 

 differences are more important than those between the different 

 groups of the genus Rhinoceros. 



1 For other characters see Marsh. 'Monograph of the Dinocerata' (U.S. 

 Geol. Surv. yol. x. [1884]). 2 Op. cit. pp. 41, 191. 



3 Amer. Nat. vol. xix. pp. 44, 53 (1885). 



