Perissodactyla — Paloplotheritnn, etc. 



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The species varied greatly in size, Palceotherium mctgmim 

 being as large as a horse, four or five feet high. ; whilst 

 P. curtum was about the size of a hog. They all had a short 

 fleshy snout or proboscis, like the tapir ; but, unlike the tapir, 

 they had only three toes on each foot, whilst the tapir has four 

 on the fore-foot. 



A very closely allied genus, and by some aixthors considered Paloplothe- 

 to be the same, is the Pcdoplotherium, of which a good series, r * um - 

 consisting of a skull, jaws, teeth, and bones of two species are N ^ b |- case 

 exhibited in the same case. The larg-est of the two 



Fig. 45. — Bestoration of the skeleton and outline of the form of Palceotherium, Eocene, 

 Montmartre. (See Pier-case, No. 9.) 



(P. annectens) was about the size of a sheep ; its remains are 

 not uncommon in the Upper Eocene of Hordwell, Hants ; and 

 have been found in abundance in deposits of the same age at 

 Vaucluse in France. 



Fig. 46. — The left maxilla, with the cheek-dentition of Paloplotherium annectens (Owen) ; 

 from the Upper Eocene of Hordwell, Hampshire. 2p, Sp, 4p, = premolars ; la, 2a, 3a, 

 true molars; £, e, outer, I, i, inner, and M, m, middle columns, (after Gaudry). 



The remains of the smaller species (P. minus) are also met 

 with at Vaucluse. 



