PACHYDERM A TA. 



CORYPHODON EOCJENUS. 



Fig. 103. 



299 



TAP1ROIDA. 



Portion of lower jaw of Coryphodon from eocene clay, Essex coast. 

 Inner side, f nat. size. 



CORYPHODON EOC^NUS. Eocene Coryphodon. 



Large Lophiodon, OWEN, Report of British Association, 1843. 



IT is not surprising that the rare and extraordinary 

 forms of Mammalia, which supply the transitional links 

 connecting the proboscidian with the tapiroid families of 

 Pachydermata, should have escaped observation ; if, in- 

 deed, they exist in this country, where those tertiary 

 formations, in which alone on the continent their remains 

 have hitherto been found, are sparingly or not at all 

 developed. No remains of Dinotherium, or gigantic 



