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Title: A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) ..
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology Woodward, Henry, 1832-1921
Subjects: Mammals, Fossil Birds, Fossil
Publisher: (London) Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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preserved in the Museum of theImperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. In Table-case No. 4 is exhibited a series of the teeth ofrhinoceroses from the Norfolk Forest-bed; from Grays, Essex;from Kents Hole, near Torquay; from Eppelsheim, Hessen-Darmstadt; from the Val dArno, &c. Family Titaxotheriim:.—This family includes a largenumber of ungulates from the Lower Tertiaries of IN. America.A skull and mandible of Titanotlieriv.m heloceras is placed in wallcase 8, and a number of teeth of T. Prouti in Table-case 4. Inthe middle of the gallery in separate glazed cases will be founda skull of T. trigonoceras and a plaster reproduction of theskull and mandible of T. robust urn. (See figure of the skeleton,p. 35.) In Table-case 4 are placed some teeth and other remains ofPalceosyops and a cast of the fore-arm and manus of Limno-hyops is exhibited in -wall-case. Family Chalicotheeiidje.—This family has a very wide geo-graphical range, being found in Canada and the United States,.
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36 The Perissodactyla—Palceotherium, etc. Table-case,No. 4. in France, Germany, Greece, India, and China. It is remark-able for the abnormality in the structure of the feet, so muchso indeed as to render it for the future unsafe to predict thecharacter of an animal from a single bone, and to invalidate theold maxim, ex pede Herculem. While the proximal bones ofthe feet retain their normal perissodactyle character, thephalanges have been modified to resemble those of Edentates,the second phalangeal bone having a strongly developed distaltrochlea (pulley) for the articulation of the huge claw formingthe terminal joint. These phalangeals have been describedbinder the names of Macrotherium and AncylotheriiLrn, and weregenerally considered to belong to the skeletons of huge Eden-tates. But Dr. Filhol, quite recently, found them in associationwith the skull and the rest of the skeleton of Chalicotherium, so

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