Description of the Lower Jaw and Teeth of an Anoplotherioid quadruped ( Dichobune ovina , Ow.) of the size of the Xiphodon gracilis, Cuv., from the Upper Eocene Marl, Isle of Wight

Abstract

The subject of the present description (Pl. VIII.) is an almost entire lower jaw with the permanent dental series, wanting only the four middle incisors. The specimen is from the collection of the Marchioness of Hastings, and now forms part of the Palæontological collection in the British Museum. The dental formula, as shown by the mandibular teeth, and by the evidence on their crowns of the presence of the teeth of the upper jaw, is the typical one in diphyodont Mammalia; viz.,