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The Dinothere has been found also in the European Miocene. It 

 was a huge animal, probably the largest of all land mammals (Gaudry), 

 with a skull three feet long, to which was 

 attached a proboscis. The lower jaw was 

 bent downward, and carried two long, tusk- 

 like teeth, projecting also downward. The 

 whole height of the head, from the points 

 of these lower teeth to the top of the cra- 

 nium, was five feet. 



Recently a perfect pelvis has been found, 

 showing the great massiveness of these 

 bones, and showing also, in these huge ani- 

 mals, the existence of marsupial bones.* 

 This strange animal combined, in the struct- 

 ure of its head, the characters of Elephant, fk»- 

 Hippopotamus, Tapir, and Dugong ; but it 

 also had affinities with marsupials. It was the earliest mid probably 

 the largest of Proboscidians. 



The Sivatliere was a four-homed antelope, of elephantine size and 

 some elephantine characters. The four-horned antelope of the present 



8C9— Head of Dinotherium 

 giganteum, greatl}' reduced. 



Fig. 900.— Head of a Sivatherium giganteum, greatly reduced. 



day lives in the same locality, but is a comparatively small animal, with 

 two short conical horns from the front part of the frontal bone, and two 



* American Journal of Science, Series II, vol. xxxviii, p. 427. 



