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a little lower, on the outer edge, than the small trochanter is on the 
inner. Other characters observable in this bone correspond with 
some which exist in that of the ass and of the tapir, but mostly with 
those of the former. He was, however, enabled to determine that 
this os femoris did not belong to either of these animals ; but was 
satisfied that it belonged to one of the species of the genus Palxo- 
therium ; and, from its size, to P. medium or P. crassum. 
The specimens of the remains of the Palceotherium are too incom- 
plete to have supplied their learned and indefatigable investigator with 
much satisfactory information with respect to its vertebral column. 
From detached points of information, M. Cuvier has, however, been 
able to determine, that the palasotherium had its neck longer in pro- 
portion than the hog and the tapir, and that it approached those ru- 
minants with a neck of a moderate size, and with a slight form, such 
as the stags and antelopes ; such, at least, appears to have been the 
case with P. minus. From a portion of a tail, composed of five ver- 
tebrae, and which seems to have belonged to P. medium, it appears 
that the tail in these animals was not so long in proportion as in the 
Anoplotheria. 
The skeleton of the Anoplotherium points out twelve or thirteen as 
the number of ribs belonging to this genus, and those of the Palceo- 
therium sixteen : two numbers which suit well with the zoological affi- 
nities of the two genera ; since the first agrees with that of the rumi- 
nants and pigs, which have thirteen or fourteen, whilst the other suits 
with the tapir, rhinoceros, and horse, which have eighteen and nineteen. 
At Pantin a specimen was found, containing great part of the skele- 
ton of an animal, which was supposed by the workmen, and reported 
by the public papers, to have been that of a ram ; but when it was 
seen by Cuvier, on its being presented to the Museum, he discovered 
that it was of the Palceotherium minus. This skeleton considerably 
confirmed the conjectures which he had already formed respecting 
the fossil remains of this genus. 
