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Pedestal 33. Restoration of Megatherium Cuvieri. This 
was another South American Edentate of the Quaternary epoch, 
which had one hundred times the bulk of any living species of this 
order. It had a wide range during this period, bones being found 
as far north as South Carolina It was a huge, clumsy beast, its 
enormous femur, three times as thick as an elephant’s, being used 
for supporting the animal while with its fore limbs it tore down 
branches of trees for food. 
Pedestal 23.— Restoration of Colossochefys atlas, one of 
the huge turtles of the Tertiary period. 
North Wall of Hall 35, Pedestal 20.-Leg bones of 
Dinornis, a huge wingless bird which inhabited New Zealand. 
The tibia is nearly a yard long and as large as that of a horse, and 
the egg, a cast representing'the size of which may be seen in Case 
iiE, had a capacity of over a gallon. Also casts of limbs of 
Sivatherium, a four-horned antelope of elephantine size. 
East Wall.— Casts showing heads of several species of Bos, 
ancestors of the modern cow; also, casts of the remains of a human 
skeleton found in limestone in Guadaloupe. 
South Wall, Pedestal 21.-Casts of skulls of several 
species of elephants of this time, including the Afastodon, which 
was the largest of this class of animals. Casts of skulls of Toxo- 
don , Sivatheriuiii , Mototheriuin, and other large mammals. 
