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they were terrible horned monsters, but whether Nature provided 

 them with true horns, like those of horned cattle to-day, is at 

 least open to doubt. 



Fig. 94 shows the skeleton of one of these, namely, Tinoceras 

 ingens. Its length was about twelve feet without the tail. Its 

 weight, when alive, was calculated to have been six thousand 

 pounds, or about two tons and three quarters. 



Plate XLI. is a restoration of the Tinoceras, made by our artist, 

 after much consideration and careful study of the valuable cast 



FIG. 94. Skeleton of Tinoceras ingens. (After Marsh.) 



exhibited in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, 

 which was generously presented by Professor Marsh. 



Looking at the skeleton, one is struck with a certain resem- 

 blance to the rhinoceros on one hand, and to the elephant on the 

 other. The legs are very elephantine, and the feet must have 

 been covered with thick pads, but the body reminds one more of 

 the rhinoceros. The eye was small and deep set, as in the 

 rhinoceros. In the upper jaw the two canine teeth are developed 

 into dagger-shaped tusks, the use of which can only be con- 

 jectured. In the females these are but slightly developed. 



