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the skeleton, probably resembled the bears more than any living 
animals, with the important a 
exception that in their feet i fs 
they were much like the ele- 
phants. To the general pro- 
portions of the bears must be 
added a tail of medium length. 
Whether they were covered 
1G. 19.— Bathmodon pachypus Cope, 
with hair or not is, of course, 
Fic. 
bones of foot of individual represented in 
uncertain ; of their nearest liv- 
ing allies, the elephants, some figs. 14 and 15, one-fifth nat. size, | 
were hairy and others naked. %, page te Me, Pek esol ones 
The top of the head was 
doubtless naked posteriorly, and in old animals may have been 
only covered by a thin epidermis, as in the crocodiles, thus pre- 
senting a rough, impenetrable front to antagonists. 
Be ea renew Mane Oia kom 
tU. S. G.G. Surveys and G. M. Wheeler, Vol. Iv, pt. IT. 
The movements of the Coryphodons doubtless resembled 
of the elephant in its shuffling and ambling gait, and may 
xen even more awkward from the inflexibility of the ankle. 
“compensation for the probable lack of speed these animals 
were most formidably armed with tusks. ‘These weapons, partic- 
dariy those of the upper jaw, are more robust than those of the 
ivora, and generally more elongate, and attrition preserved 
r than diminished their acuteness. The size of the species 
"aried from that of a tapir to that of an ox. 
those 
have 
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