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The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle [vol. 1 of 5]

Note 46 — DESCRIPTION OF A CONSIDERABLE PART OF THE SKELETON OF A LARGE EDENTATE MAMMAL, ALLIED TO THE MEGATHERIUM AND ORYCTEROPUS, AND FOR WHICH IS PROPOSED THE NAME OF SCELIDOTHERIUM[44] LEPTOCEPHALUM.

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It requires little stretch of imagination to conceive that this more complex posterior tooth (Pl. XXIII., fig. 4, 4) in the lower jaw is the representative of the two smaller posterior teeth (ib. fig. 3, 4, and 5) of the upper jaw conjoined.

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