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those of many great quadrupeds, such as the elephant, mastodon, 

 rhinoceros, horse, camel, giraffe, sivatherium, and many other 

 mammals. The Sivalik fauna also included a great number of 

 reptiles, such as crocodiles, lizards, and snakes. 



The greater part of the remains of the Colossochelys atlas were 



FIG. 48. Restored figure of gigantic tortoise, Colossochelys atlas, from 

 the Sivalik Hills, Northern India. 



collected during a period of eight or nine years, along a range of 

 about a hundred miles of hilly country. Consequently, they belong 

 to a large number of individuals, varying in size and age. They 

 were met with in crushed fragments, contained in upheaved 

 strata, which have undergone considerable disturbance, so that it 



