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the elephant’s. This creature has also been described under the | 
name of Titanotherium. (See Plate XLIII.) 
One of the strangest of quadrupeds ever discovered by geologists j 
was the huge and fierce beast known as Arsinoetherium of which I 
Fig. 99. — Skull and lower jaw of Arsinoetherium, from the Upper Eocene of the 
Fayum, Egypt. 
the skull is shown in Pig. 99, and a restoration in Plate XLIII. 
The remains were found by Mr. Beadnell of the Egyptian 
Geological Survey in the Upper Eocene Sands of the Fayum ^ 
district. The only parts missing appear to be the ribs and the 
toes. The skull was nearly three feet long, and although some 
1 See Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of the Fayum, Egypt. By 
C. W. Andrews, D.Sc. Published by Trustees of British Museum. 
