26 ELEPHANTS. 



Pier- incisors, as in Pal&omastodon, help to add to the length, and 



41^42 were no doubt used for grubbing in the earth. The remarks 



T a bie- made about the upper cheek-teeth are equally true of the 



case 23. lower. The neck seems to have been a little longer and more 



Fig. 15. 



Skull and mandible of Tetrabelodon lonyirostris, from the Lower 



Pliocene, Eppelsheim, Hesse-Darmstadt. 

 i.f lower incisor ; m. 2-3, second and third molars. About -J^. na ^ size. 



flexible than in the modern elephant, but the limbs and other 

 parts were much the same. This animal when living (fig. 14) 

 must have been still more like an elephant than Palao- 

 mastodon, and the most noticeable difference would be that 

 here also, instead of the flexible trunk there was a long stiff 



