FIG. 79. ANOPLOTHERIUM COMMUNE. 



Upper Eocene (Paris ; also at Binstead, Isle of Wight). (From Nicholson's 



Palaeontology. ) 



This animal was about the size of an ass, and was especially remarkable for its 

 continuous set of 44 teeth, there being no gap in the series. No living 

 mammal except man has this characteristic. It is supposed to have been a 

 highly specialised early type which has left no direct descendants. 



FIG. 80. PAL.EOTHERIUM MAGNUM. 

 From the Upper Eocene of Paris and the Isle of Wight. (Nicholson's 



Palaeontology. ) 



The numerous species of Palreotherium were three-toed animals having resemblances 

 to horses, tapirs, and llamas. The species here figured (as restored by 

 Cuvier) was about the size of a horse, but it is now known that the neck 

 was considerably longer than here shown. 



