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Renews — Prof. Edward D. Cope — 



Proboscidea by the small size of the cerebral hemispheres, and the 

 double distal articulation of the astragalus, in which the facets for 

 the cuboid and navicular bones are nearly equal. There is less 

 difference between the molar and premolar teeth in this group than 

 in the Pantodonta. In the upper jaw the crowns of the molars have 

 crests with a V pattern, and the lower molars consists of a "V" directed 

 outward, and a heel. Professor Cope recognizes four genera based 

 on characters of the mandible ; these are named Eobasileus, Loxolo- 

 phodon, Bathyopsis and Uintathermm. Eobasileus pressicomis and E. 

 furcatus represent the type in which some of the cervical vertebrae 

 are flat and short as in Proboscidea. The muzzle is short ; the oc- 

 Loxolophodon eornutus. 



cipital and parietal crests are remarkably developed, and the propor- 

 tions of the head somewhat resembled those of Ehinoceros, though 

 the horns and tusks give it a different aspect. Loxolophodon is one 

 of those genera concerning which the priority of nomenclature is 



