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extends upward and posteriorly and connects with the groove lying 

 between the dorsolateral border of the centrum and the base of the 

 transverse process. The anterior chevron facets are more widely sep- 

 arated in median line and broader than the posterior facets. Several 

 nutritive foramina pierce the middle of the ventral surface. 



The transverse process resembles that in the vertebra of the 

 Brazilian Nothr other ium figured by Reinhardt. 18 "When viewed from 

 the side the plane of the process is seen to slope approximately 28° 

 from the horizontal. The pedicle of the neural arch is thick and sup- 



16b 



Figs. 16a and 16b. {?)Nothrotherium shastense hawveri, n. subsp. Last 

 sacral or first caudal vertebra, no. 21476, X M>. Fig. 16a, anterior view; fig. 16b, 

 superior view. Pleistocene of Hawver Cave, near Auburn, California. 



!8 Bernhardt, J., Kaempedovendyr-Slaegten Coelodon, Vidensk. Selsk. Skr., 5 

 Eaekke, naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk Afhandl., vol. 12, pi. 2, figs. 4 and 5, 



