DINOTHEKIIDiE. t> 



Genus DINOTHERIUM, Kaup 1 . 



Syn. Antoletherium, Falconer 2 . 



Dentition •— I. °^p, C. 5, Pm. |, M. |. Three milk-molars are pre- 

 sent in the lower {infra, p. 8, No. 33519), and therefore probably 

 in the upper jaw. The number of ridges in the cheek-teeth is 

 Mm. ?44» Pm. J-'-!, M. J44 The symphysis of the mandible is 

 deflected, and the lower incisors are of very large size. 



Dinotherium gSganteum, Kaup 3 (cr Cuv.). 



Including Dinotherium cuvieri, Kaup 4 . 

 Dinotherium medium, Kaup 5 . 

 Dinotherium bavaricum, H. v. Meyer 6 . 

 Dinotherium proavum, Eichwald 7 . 

 Dinotherium kcenigi, Kaup 8 . 



Although there is a great variation in the size of the specimens 

 included under this specific head, yet the transition from one to the 

 other is so gradual that they cannot apparently be specifically 

 distinguished 9 . It must, however, be borne in mind that the 

 simple structure of the teeth admits of but scarcely any modification, 

 and therefore that there is a possibility of these variations in size really 

 indicating the existence of more than one European species. 



Hah. Europe. The species ranges in time from the Middle Mio- 

 cene of Erance to the Lower Pliocene of Pikermi and the Vienna 

 basin (Congerian stage) ; and has a very wide range in space, having 

 been recorded from Germany, Switzerland, Erance, Spain, Austria- 

 Hungary, Greece, Styria, and Eussia 10 . 



40361. The cranium and cast of the mandible (woodcut, fig. 2) ; the 



(Fig.) former was obtained in 1835 by Klipstein from the 



ossiferous sand of Eppelsheim, Hessen-Darmstadt, and 



is described and figured by Klipstein and Kaup in a 4to 



memoir entiled ' Beschreibung und Abbildungen von dem 



1 Isis, vol. xxii. p. 401 (1829) (ex Cuv. 1822. Tapir gigantesque). 



2 Palaeontological Memoirs, vol. i. p. 416 (1868). 



3 Isis, vol. xxii. p. 401 (1829). . 



4 Oss. Foss. d. Darmstadt, pt. 1, p. 14 (1832). 



5 Neues Jahrb. 1833, p. 419. 



6 ]Sova Acta Ac. Caes. Leop.-Oar. vol. xvi. pt. 2, p. 487 (1833). This name 

 is a synonym of D. cuvieri. 



7 Ibid. vol. xvii. pt. 2, p. 741 (1835). 



8 Akten der TJrwelt, pt. i. p. 19 (1841). 



9 See Weinsheimer, Pal. Abhandl. vol. i. pt. 3 (1883). 



10 See Weinsheimer, op. cit. pp. 65-73. 



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