LIFE OF TERTIARY PERIOD 





The imperfect skull of another species (Fig. 74) shows even 

 larger the honj horn-cores presenting all tlie appearance of 

 having carried some kind of horns. This seems the more 

 probable, as many of the species had no tusks, and in that case 

 mere rounded bony protuberances would have been of little 



Fig. 74. — Uintatherium cornutum. 

 From the Middle Eocene of Wyoming, U.S.A. (Nicholson's Palaeontology.) 



protective use. Figure 75 (on p. 238) represents the skeleton 

 of one of the largest species without tusks. From the scah^ 

 given, it must have been 11 or 12 feet long and nearly 8 feet 

 high. 



Professor Marsh informs us that these strange-homed ani- 

 mals have been found onlv in one Eocene lake-basin, in 

 Wyoming, U.S.A. He says: 



"These gigantic beasts, which nearly equalled the elephant in 

 size, roamed in great numbers about the borders of the anciout 



