_4 mblypoda — Coryphodon. 



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have latterly, by Harder, Flower, and others, been constituted 

 as a distinct group. 



Only two genera, Hyrax and DendroJiyrax, are known, see 

 recent Alanmialian Gallery, South-west side (Case 10, Division 

 A.) ; they are found in Africa, at the Cape, and in Abyssinia, 

 thence they extend into Arabia, Syria, and Palestine. No fossil 

 remains of these little mammals have, as yet, been described. 



Sub-order 3. — Amblypoda. 



Here are placed the remains of Coryphodon, from the Lower Coryphodon. 

 Eocene of Harwich, Essex; and from Dulwich, near London; Pier-case, 



No. 20. 



A 



B 



Fig. 33. — (A) the left upper, and (B) the left lower, cheek-dentition of Coryphodon 

 Marsh), from the Eocene of North America (from Prof. Marsh's Monograph 

 of the Dinocerata). 



Fig. 31.— Palatal aspect of cranium of Coryphodon elephantopus (Cope; (f nat. size), 

 from the Wasatch Eocene, New Mexico, U.S.A. (after Cupe). 



also plaster-casts of teeth and bones of the same animal from the 

 Eocene lignites of Soissons in. France. Several species from 



