CHCEROPOTAMUS CUVIERI. 



413 



PACHYDERM A TA . 



CHCEROPOTAMUS, 



Fig. 163. 



Lower jaw of Chceropotamm Cuvieri, nat. size. Eocene marl, Isle of Wight. 

 An outline of upper jaw from Cuvier. 



CUVIER'S 



Chceropotame, 



CHCEROPOTAMUS. 



Cuvieri. 



Chceropotamus 



Cliceropotamus Gypsorum, 

 Cuvieri^ 



CUVIER, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to. 1822, p. 360, 

 pi. li. fig. 3, A, B, c, pi. Ixviii. fig. 1. 



DESMARKST, Mammalogie, p. 545. 



OWEN, Geological Transactions, second series, 

 vol. vi. p. 41, pi. iv. 



SEVERAL interesting forms of Pachyderms with toes in 

 even number, as Anthracotherium, (Cuvier,) Merycopotamus 

 and Hippohyus, (Cautley and Falconer,) which filled up 

 the wide interval that now divides the Hippopotamus from 

 the Hog, formerly existed, and have left their remains in 

 more ancient tertiary deposits than those containing the 

 fossil Hippopotamus. Hitherto no remains of these genera 

 have been detected in Britain ; and the nearest link which 

 the fossils of our island afford in the transition from the 

 Hippopotamus to the Hog-tribe, is presented by the Cho3- 

 ropotamus. This quadruped must have resembled the 

 Peccari, but was about one third larger : it was the earliest 

 form of the Hog-tribe introduced upon our planet. 



