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LAND MAMMALS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE 



todonts, with numerous armadillos of ordinary size. The 

 hoofed animals all belonged to the indigenous South American 

 orders, the predominant place being taken by the ftoxodonts, 



Fig. 124. — Head of Horned fToxodont (fTrigodon gaudryi). Pliocene of Monte Her- 

 moso. Restored from a skull in the Ameghino collection. 



some of which were large. There were many ftypotheres, 

 both of the larger and smaller kinds. The fLitopterna were 

 represented both by the horse-like fproterotheres and the long- 

 necked fmacrauchenids, the latter smaller and less specialized 

 than those of the Pampean. 



