Description of Teeth and portions of Jaws of two extinct Anthracotheroid Quadrupeds ( Hyopotamus vectianus and Hyopbovinus ) discovered by the Marchioness of Hastings in the Eocene Deposits on the N. W. coast of the Isle of Wight: with an attempt to develope Cuvier's idea of the Classification of Pachyderms by the Number of their Toes

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Whilst in Paris in the month of September last, I was favoured by the Marchioness of Hastings with information of the discovery of the fossils that form the chief subject of the present communication. Her ladyship wrote,—“My search in a particular part of the Eocene beds of the Isle of Wight, where formerly I found that Lophiodon or Palæotherium bone figured in your ‘British Fossil Mammalia,’ has been eminently successful. I have got two portions of jaw and many other bones. I have sketched them for you. Are they Coryphodon or Anoplotherium ?” The pen-and-ink sketches, executed with the skill and accuracy of an accomplished artist, showed the fossils to belong to the Anthracotherioid family of Ungulata , with an evident resemblance to that species in the upper molars of which Cuvier had detected a closer resemblance to the Anoplotherium than the same teeth of the typical genus Anthracotherium present

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