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GUIDE TO THE FOSSIL MAMMALS AND BIRDS. 



Pier-case 

 20. 



coast near Harwich. It is exhibited in Pier-case 20. Other 

 remains of Coryphodon are known from the Lower Eocene 

 of England and France, and nearly complete skeletons have 

 been found in rocks of the same age in North America. The 

 grinding teeth (Fig. 36) are adapted for succulent food, and 



the canine teeth are only slightly enlarged. All the species 

 are hornless, and some seem to have attained a body-length 

 of about six feet. 



The Middle Eocene Amblypoda, hitherto discovered only 

 in North America, are curiously horned, and commonly 

 known as Dinocerata (terrible-horns). A papier mache copy 

 of a complete skeleton of Dinoceras (or Uintatherium) 



