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II.—Restoration of Brontops Robustus, from the Miocene of America1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

O. C. Marsh
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The largest mammals of the American Miocene were the huge Brontotheridæ, which lived in great numbers on the eastern flanks of the Rocky Mountains, and were entombed in the fresh-water lakes of that region. They were larger than the Dinocerata of the Eocene, and nearly equalled in size the existing Elephant. They constitute a distinct family of Perissodactyles, and were more nearly allied to the Rhinoceros than to any other living forms.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , March 1889 , pp. 99 - 101
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1889

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Footnotes

1

Abstract of a paper read before Section D of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at the Bath meeting, Sept. 7th, 1888.

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page 99 note 2 The present Plate (IV.), one twenty-fourth natural size, shows a reduced copy of the same restoration.