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tusks of this species. The head was very flat from before backwards, and Mastodon 



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the size of the cranium remarkably small. The jugal bone was long and 

 slender, and inclined forwards. The processes of the lower jaw were also 

 inclined forwards, the coronoid being lower than the condyloid. The teeth, 

 two in number on each side of each jaw, resembled, as well as I could 

 ascertain from a distant view, some of those of the Himalaya Mountains ; 

 the mammilla? being more rounded than in the Mastodon Giganteus, and 

 slightly alternate. The middle molar teeth have the same form as in the 

 Giganteus; they are quadrangular, and the crowns are also composed of 

 three ridges. The figures developed on the crown of the worn molars 

 resemble those of the Mastodon Longirostris ; but the fissures dividing the 

 cones from each other, and penetrating deeply between them, give an 

 undulating form to' the enamel. These characters were afterwards distinctly 

 pointed out to me by M. Laurillard, in specimens in the National Museum 

 at Paris, and were typically represented by him as follows : — 



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