MAMMALIA OF MIOCENE PERIOD. 
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Similar admixtures have been found in Ba- 
varia,* and near Darmstadt.f Many of these 
animals also indicate a lacustrine, or swampy 
condition of the regions they inhabited : one of 
them, the Dinotherium giganteum (gigantic 
* Count Munster and Mr. Murchison have discovered, at 
Georgensgemiind, in Bavaria, the bones of Palseotherium, Ano- 
plotherium, and Anthracotherium, mixed with those of Mastodon, 
Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Horse, Ox, Bear, Fox, &c. ; and 
several species of land shells. 
A very interesting detailed description of the remains found 
at this place has been published by Hermann von Meyer, 
Frankfurt, 1834, 4to. with 14 plates. 
t We learn from the excellent publication of Professor Kaup, 
of Darmstadt, that at Epplesheim, near Altzey, about twelve 
leagues south of Mayence, remains of the following animals have 
been found, in strata of sand, referrible to the second or Miocene 
period of the tertiary formations. These are preserved in the 
museum at Darmstadt. 
'Gigantic Herbivorous 
Animals fifteen and 
eighteen feet long. 
Larger than living spe- 
cies. 
Allied to Tapirs. 
Allied to Mastodon. 
Allied to the Horse. 
Hog. 
r Large Cats, some as 
1^ large as a Lion. 
rAIlied to Bear. Ursus 
I Cultridens. 
Glutton, 
r Allied to Dog, large 
1^ as a Lion. 
See Description d'Ossemeiis Fossiles, par Kaup. Darmst. 1832. 
Dinotherium 
Number of 
Species. 
2 
Tapirus 
Chalicotherium . . . 
Rhinoceros 
o 
.... /b •••• 
2 
Tetracaulodon .... 
Hippotherium 
Sus 
• ••• X •••• 
• ••• 1 ao** 
Felis 
^ 
Machairodus 
Gulo 
• •• JL ■«•• 
Agnotherium 
• •• X ••«• 
