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I'AI F.OTI1KH1UM. 



PACHYDERM AT A. 



PALMOTI1ERWM. 



Fig. 109. 



Skeleton of Pakeotherium magnum, as restored by Cuvier. 

 Arth iiat. size. 



PAL^EOTHERIUM MAGNUM. 



Paleothere. 



Palaotlierium magnum, 



CUVIER, Annales du Museum, iii. pp. 365, 442. vi. 

 p. 265. ix. pp. 15, 29 ; Ossemens Fossiles, torn. iii. 



THE genus Palaeotlierium was founded by Cuvier, and 

 several species restored by the masterly determinations of 

 the detached and fragmentary fossils successively disco- 

 vered in the gypsum quarries of Montmartre, and sub- 

 mitted to the great Anatomist, who may be said to have 

 based the science of Palseontology on the immortal Me- 

 moirs descriptive of the present and allied extinct Pachy- 

 derms of the Paris Basin, which form the third volume of 

 the 4to. editions of the ' Ossemens Fossiles.' 



The dental formula of the genus Palaotheriwrn, is: i. If, 

 c. \-\ip- 4-t, m- f-tr, = 44; that is, there are three incisors 



