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the elephant's. This creature has also been described under the 

 name of Titanotherium. (See Plate XLIII.) 



One of the strangest of quadrupeds ever discovered by geologists 

 was the huge and fierce beast known as Arsinoetherium of which 



FIG. 99. Skull and lower jaw of Arsinoe'therium, from the Upper Eocene of the 



Fayum, Egypt. 



the skull is shown in Fig. 99, and a restoration in Plate XLIII. 

 The remains were found by Mr. Beadnell of the Egyptian 

 Geological Survey in the Upper Eocene Sands of the Fayum 1 

 district. The only parts missing appear to be the ribs and the 

 toes. The skull was nearly three feet long, and although some 



1 See Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of the Fayum, Egypt. By 

 C. W. Andrews, D.Sc. Published by Trustees of British Museum. 



