Reprinted from the Pkoceedings op the National Academy of Sciences, 

 Vol. 5, pp. 250-252, July, 1919 



SEVENTEEN SKELETbNS OF MOROPUS; PROBABLE HABITS OF 



THIS ANIMAL 



By Henry Fairfield Osborn 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York City 



Read before the Academy, April 29, 1919 



M or opus is an aberrant perissodactyl, closely related to the family of the 

 Titanotheres and more remotely to that of the Horses. It occurs in the 

 Lower Miocene age in France and North America, and its ancestors have been 



