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FOSSIL MAMMALIA. 
ordinary animal forms, than occur in any other 
species, either of recent or fossil quadrupeds. 
It has been already stated, in our account of 
the Mammalia of the Miocene period of the 
tertiary series, that the most abundant remains 
of the Dinotherium are found at Epplesheim, in 
the province of Hesse Darmstadt, and are de- 
scribed, in a work now in process of publication, 
by Professor Kaup. Fragments of the same 
genus are mentioned by Cuvier, as occurring ii^ 
several parts of France, and in Bavaria and 
Austria. 
The form of the molar teeth of the Dinothe- 
rium (PI. 2, C. Fig. 3), so nearly resembles that 
of the Tapirs, that Cuvier at first referred them 
to a gigantic species of this genus. Professor 
Kaup has since placed this animal in the neW 
genus Dinotherium, holding an intermediate 
place between the Tapir and the Mastodon, and 
supplying another important extinct link in the 
great family of Pachydermata. The largest 
species of this genus, D. Giganteum, is calcu- 
lated, both by Cuvier and Kaup, to have 
attained the extraordinary length of eighteen 
feet. The most remarkable bone of the body 
yet found is the shoulder-blade, the form ot 
which more nearly resembles that of a Mole 
than of any other animal, and seems to indicate 
a peculiar adaptation of the fore leg to the 
purposes of digging, an indication which 
