Animals Before Man 



tail, than any other living animals, and they 

 probably had a similar shuffling gait. But the 

 resemblance was only in appearance, for in 



The clumsy Coryphodon. (After Osborn.) 



spite of their large canine teeth, the corypho- 

 dons were not related to the carnivores. The 

 coryphodons may have come from Europe, 

 since the genus was present there at the same 

 time ; and with them, or at this date, there came 

 into North America a host of animals. These 

 included the ancestors of the horse * and rhi- 



* This is not quite certain, for the development of the horse 

 may yet be shown to have taken plnee in North America, though 

 just at present it is not traced back of Hyracotheritim. The state- 

 ment is made on the authority of Professor Scott. 



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