578 Fossil Remains of Anoplotherium 



The remains of Anoplotherium and of the larger species of Giraffe, 

 described in the present communication, belong to the " soft fos- 

 sils ;" those of the smaller species of giraffe to the " hard fossil." 



Anoplotherium. — The occurrence, in the Sewalik deposits, of bones 

 belonging to this genus, was announced by the authors in their ' Sy- 

 nopsis of the fossil genera, from the upper deposits of the Sewalik 

 hills,' published in the 4th volume of the Journal of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal, in the year 1835 ; and the same fact was after- 

 wards referred to in the 6th volume, p. 358, of that Journal. In 

 these communications the species was not described, but was named 

 provisionally, A. posterogenium. In a communication made to the 

 Geological Society in the year 1836, descriptive of a quadrumanous 

 fossil remain, and published in the 5th volume of the 2d series of 

 their Transactions, the same species was mentioned under the name 

 of A. Sivalense, a term which the authors propose to retain, in ac- 

 cordance with the principle they adopted in the cases of the horse, 

 camel, hippopotamus, &c, of connecting the most remarkable new 

 species of each fossil Sewalik genus with the formation itself. 



In their present communication the authors purposely abstain from 

 entering on the anatomical characters of this new species further in 

 detail than is barely sufficient for its determination ; and they there- 

 fore confined their notice to two fine fragments of one head, one 

 fragment belonging to the left upper jaw ; the other fragment to the 

 right upper jaw. 



By a happy chance the teeth are beautifully preserved. The age 

 of the individual, which was just adult, was the best that could be 

 desired to show the marks characteristic of the genus ; for the teeth 

 had attained their full development, though the two rear molars had 

 hardly come into use. 



Remarks on the Genus Anoplotherium. — The true Anoplotheria of 

 Cuvier (of which A. commune may be regarded as the type), together 

 with the A. Sivalense and the Chalicotherium (Anoplotherium ?) 

 Goldfussi, are allied, by their dentition, to Rhinoceros. The Dicho- 

 bunes, A. Leporinum, A. murinum and A. obliquum, Cuvier arranges 

 with considerable doubt, and provisionally only, among the Anoplo- 

 theria. He considers it not impossible that the two latter species were 



