MASTODON ANGUSTIDENS. 271 



PACHYDERMATA. PROBOSCID1A. 



Fig. 96. 



Upper and lower jaws of the Mastodon angustidens, from Epplesheim, after Kaup. 



MASTODON ANGUSTIDENS. Narrow-toothed 

 Mastodon. 



Mastodonte a dents etroites, 

 Mastodon Avernensis, 



angustidens, 



CUVIEK, Annales du Museum, torn, viii., Osse- 

 mens Fossils, torn. i. 4to, 1821. 



CROIZET and JOBERT, Ossem. Foss. du Puy de 

 Dome, 4to. 1828. 



KAUP, Ossem. Foss. de Mammiferes de Darm- 

 stadt. 1836. 

 OWEN, Report of British Association, 1843. 



NATURALISTS are most familiar with that gigantic type 

 of quadrupeds called, from the peculiar prehensile develop- 

 ment of the nose and upper lip, " proboscidian," as it is 

 manifested by the existing species of Elephants which 

 have been at different times introduced into Europe from 



