PALJEOTHEKIID^:. 31 



Palaeotherium latum, Cuvier 1 . 



This species is founded upon the evidence of metapodial bones, 

 which are of the stout type of those here referred to P. medium, 

 but relatively shorter. The upper molars referred to it by De 

 Blainville (' Osteographie,' Genus Palceotherium, pi. v.) are some- 

 what smaller than those of P. crassum. 



Hah. Europe. 



11956. Cast of the distal half of the left humerus. The original 

 is from the Upper Eocene of Montmartre, near Paris, and 

 is preserved in the Paris Museum of Natural History ; it 

 is figured in De Blainville's ' Osteographie,' Genus Palceo- 

 therium, pi. iii., and in Cuvier's ' Ossemens Eossiles,' 2nd 

 ed. vol. iii. pi. xxx. figs. 5, 6. 



Mantell Collection. Purchased, 1836. 



11960. Cast of the left ulna. The original is from Montmartre, 

 and is figured by De Blainville, loc. cit. 



Mantell Collection. Purchased, 1836. 



11895. Cast of the third left metacarpal. The history of this speci- 

 men is the same as that of the last ; its length is 0,089. 

 It is figured by Cuvier, op. cit. pi. lix. fig. 2. 



Mantell Collection. Purchased, 1836. 



M. 2447. The third left metacarpal, imperfect distally; from the 

 Upper Eocene phosphorites of Caylux (Tarn-et-Garonne), 

 France. Purchased, 1885. 



The following specimen may perhaps belong to this species. 



M. 1769. Part of the right ramus of the mandible of a small Palceo- 

 therium belonging to the present group ; from the Upper 

 Eocene of Bach, near Lalbenque (Lot), Erance. This spe- 

 cimen contains the four premolars (so determined by the 

 fourth tooth being less worn than the third), the length 

 of the space occupied by which is 0,045. It is somewhat 

 smaller than the corresponding portion of the jaw of 

 P. crassum, and somewhat larger than the one figured by 

 Gervais in the Zool. et Pal. Erangaises, 2nd ed. pi. xvi. 

 figs. 2, 3, as that of P. curtum (the plate is lettered 

 P. minus). Purchased, 1884. 



1 Ossemens Fossiles, 2nd ed. vol. iii. p. 08 (1822). 



