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EXTINCT MONSTERS 
they were terrible horned monsters, but whether Nature provided 
them with true horns, like those of horned cattle to-day, is at 
least open to doubt. 
Fig. 94 shows the skeleton of one of these, namely, Tinoceras 
ingens. Its length was about twelve feet without the tail. Its 
weight, when alive, was calculated to have been six thousand 
pounds, or about two tons and three quarters. 
Plate XLI. is a restoration of the Tinoceras, made by our artist, 
after much consideration and careful study of the valuable cast 
Fig. 94. — Skeleton of Tinoceras ingens. (After Marsh.) 
exhibited in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, 
which was generously presented by Professor Marsh. 
Looking at the skeleton, one is struck with a certain resem- 
blance to the rhinoceros on one hand, and to the elephant on the 
other. The legs are very elephantine, and the feet must have 
been covered with thick pads, but the body reminds one more of 
the rhinoceros. The eye was small and deep set, as in the 
rhinoceros. In the upper jaw the two canine teeth are developed 
into dagger-shaped tusks, the use of which can only be con- 
jectured. In the females these are but slightly developed. 
