CHAPTER XTIL 



RESTORATIONS OF DINOCERAS AND TINOCERAS. 



(Plates LV and LVI.) 



The 2:)receding- chapters of tliis memoir, and the illustrations given in 

 Plates I-LIV, will make known to anatomists nearly all the important 

 cliaracters in the skeleton of the g-igantic mammals of the order Dinocerata. 

 In Plate LV, a restoration is given of Dinoceras mirahile, the type of the 

 group, and, in Plate LVI, one also of Tinoceras ingens, a characteristic, 

 and more specialized form of an allied genus. 



The remains available for these restorations consist of portions of 

 more than two hundred individuals of the Dinocerata. As none of the 

 skeletons of the species here represented were complete when found, it 

 has been necessary to use, in both restorations, the bones of other 

 individuals which could not be distinguished from the type specimens. 

 Some of these bones may, perhaps, belong to allied forms, but it is 

 believed that the restorations, as here given, fairly represent the skeletons 

 of the species named. 



In the restoration of Dinoceras mirahile on Plate LV, the remains of 

 the type specimen of the species, a fully adult, but not old individual, 

 have been used for the more important parts, and the remaining portions 

 taken from other individuals. This restoration is one-eighth natural size. 



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