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those of many great quadrupeds, such as the elephant, mastodon, 
rhinoceros, horse, camel, giraffe, sivatherium, and many other 
mammals. The Sivalik fauna also included a great number of 
reptiles, such as crocodiles, lizards, and snakes. 
The greater part of the remains of the Colossochelys atlas were 
Fig. 48. — Restored figure of gigantic tortoise, Colossochelys atlas, from 
the Sivalik Hills, Northern India. 
collected during a period of eight or nine years, along a range of 
about a hundred miles of hilly country. Consequently, they belong 
to a large number of individuals, varying in size and age. They 
were met with in crushed fragments, contained in upheaved 
strata, which have undergone considerable disturbance; so that it 
