(TEETH, LOWER JAW.)
M.
Transverse diameter of last molar ·026
Height of highest point above cingulum of last molar ·023
Fore-and-aft diameter of second molar ·0285
Transverse diameter of second molar ·023
Height of second molar ·0215
Length of fourth premolar ·021
Width of fourth premolar ·015
Height of fourth premolar ·020
Length of third premolar ·020
Width of third premolar ·015
Height of third premolar ·014
_Vertebræ._
_Cervical region_ (Plate VI., Fig. 1).--(Only one preserved, probably
fifth or sixth.)
The centrum is short, compared with the dorsals, but is much longer
than the cervical centra of the _Proboscidea_; it is broad and
depressed, oval in form, and slightly opisthocœlous. The zygapophyses
are developed upon tuberous projections of the pedicles; they are
large, flat, and in the same plane with each other. The diapophyses
are very slender and short, and but slightly heavier than the
parapophyses, with which they unite, enclosing a large vertebraterial
canal. At the anterior margin of the parapophysis, a small pointed
process projects downward.
The pedicles are low and very heavy, bounding a narrow neural canal.
The epiphyses are not so completely ossified as they are in the
dorsal region.
_Dorso-lumbar region_ (Plate VI., Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5),--(Description
based upon nine dorsals and two lumbar vertebræ.)
The centra are large, subtriangular, and slightly compressed; they
are opisthocœlous, but less so than in the _Proboscidea_. They
increase in size slowly but regularly from before backwards. In the
middle dorsal region they are excessively expanded laterally for the
posterior-costal attachments; but become less broad and higher as
they recede in the series. In the middle of the series the centra are
marked by a prominent hypophysial keel.
In the anterior dorsals the costal surfaces are developed almost
entirely upon the pedicles, and are two in number. These are very
large in about the sixth and seventh, and meet. They decrease in size
as they recede. In the middle region the posterior costal surfaces
are small, lozenge-shaped facets, and are developed upon thin lateral
projections of the centra.
The centrum of the last dorsal is heavy, resembling the centra of
the lumbar, from which it is distinguished by a single pair of small
costal surfaces, developed, half on the pedicles and half on the
centrum.
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