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edition of the same work, 8vo., vol. v. p. 480, both of 

 which are referred by Cuvier to the genus AntJiracotherium. 

 The last molar in the present fossil differs, however, from 

 the teeth above cited, in the height of the connecting ridge 

 of the anterior pair of points, and in the development of 

 the fifth point, not from a third posterior* lobe, but from the 

 apex of the angular ridge connecting the posterior pair of 

 points. The typical Anthracotherium, of which part of the 

 lower jaw from the lignite beds of Liguria is figured by 

 Cuvier, in the ' Ossemens Fossiles, 1 1822, torn. iii. pi. Ixxx. 

 fig. 2, differs from the fossil under consideration, in the deep 

 cleft dividing the anterior pair of tubercles ; and in the 

 great development of the bifid posterior, or third lobe of 

 the last molar tooth. In the posterior part of the penulti- 

 mate tooth of the present fossil, it is easy to perceive that 

 the tubercle corresponding with the inner one of the poste- 

 rior pair in the last molar is obsolete, and represented by 

 a minute eminence near the base of the crown ; whilst the 

 tubercle answering to the fifth in the last molar is more 

 elevated, and is nearer the inner side, and the ridge from 

 the outer tubercle terminates there. It is also obvious 

 from the breadth of the fractured part of the anterior fang 

 of the penultimate molar, that its antero- posterior dia- 

 meter must have more nearly equalled that of the last 

 molar than in the Lophiodons. 



The second and third molars of the lower jaw of the 

 ' grand Lophiodon de Buchsweiler,' resemble the last 

 molar of the present fossil, in having the anterior trans- 

 verse ridge more elevated than the posterior one ; but in 

 the fourth molar they are of equal height, (Cuvier, ' Ossem- 

 ens Fossiles,' loc. cit. p. 202, pi. vii. fig. 1.) The British 

 Tapiroid fully equalled in size that of Buchsweiler, and the 

 fossil in question belonged to a full-grown but not aged 



