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The entire skeleton of the Mastodon from Benton Co., Mastodon. 



Missouri (Fig. 25), stands facing the entrance to the Gallery, stand A. 



Near it, in a separate case, are placed the head and lower jaw of Glass-case 

 the South- American Mastodon f rom Chile {Mastodon Humbdldtii) * ; C. 



and in the Wall-case is exhibited the cast of the skull and J^gg 086 ' 



Fig. 26.— Restored skeleton (greatly reduced) of Mastodon angustidens (Cuvier); 

 Middle Miocene, Sansan, France (after Gautlry). 



lower jaw of a young individual of Mastodon americanus, Cuv., 

 from shell-marl beneath a peat-bog in the State of New Jersey, 

 United States. 



In the Pier-case are arranged several heads and jaws, be- Pier-case, 

 sides numerous detached limb-bones, and other parts of the —?• j*?" . 

 skeleton of Mastodon americanus from North. America. Most of 

 these remains were obtained from alluvial deposits on the banks 

 of a small tributary of the Osage River, in Benton Co., Missouri; 

 and others from a peat deposit at " Big-Bone-lick," Kentucky. f 

 'One fine lower jaw of this species has a small tusk in front. 



The next Pier-case is occupied with remains of Mastodon Ion- Mastodon. 

 girosVris from Eppelsheim, in Hessen-Darmstadt ; M. angustidens, pier-case 

 from the Miocene of Sansan, and M. turicensis from Haute No. 37. 

 Garonne, both in France; M. perimensis from Perim Island, 

 Gulf of Cambay ; and M. sivalensis from the Siwalik Hills, 



* Marked (C) on plan and placed on the North side of this Gallery next 

 Tuble-case 23. 



t Several entire examples of the American Mastodon have been met with. 

 Three perfect skeletons have been obtained from the freshwater marshes of 

 Orange County, Sew York, another from near C'ohoes Falls, on the Mohawk, 

 another in Indiana, one from a morass in New Jersey, another on the banks 

 of the Missouri ; the best was obtained by Dr. Warren from a marsh near 

 Newburgh. Its height is 11 feet, length 17 feet, the tusks 12 feet long, 

 "2i feet being inserted within the sockets. — Dana. 



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