Fig. 7!). — Anoplotherium commn/tie. 



Upper Eocene (Paris; also at Binstead, Isle of Wight.) From Nicholson's 



Palaeontology.) 



This animal was about the size of an ass, and was especially remarkable fur its 

 continuous set of 44 teeth, there being no gap in the series. No livins mammal 

 except man has this characteristic. It is supposed to have been a highly spe- 

 cialized enrly type which has left no direct descendants. 





Fj(;. 80. — /'(ilaotherium ntogntini. 

 from the Upper Eocene of Paris and the Isle of "Wight. (Nicholson's PahuDntology.) 



The numerous species of Pala?otlierium were three-toed animals bavins resembbmces 

 to horses, tapirs, and llamas. The species here figured (as restored by Cuvier) 

 was about the size of a horse, but it is now known that the neck was consid- 

 erably longer than here shown. 



