The British museum of natural history (South Kensington) / by W.P. Pycraft ... Illustrated by Edwin Noble ... and from photographs.

  • William Plane Pycraft
Date:
[1910]
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Credit: The British museum of natural history (South Kensington) / by W.P. Pycraft ... Illustrated by Edwin Noble ... and from photographs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    small animal known as Palseomastodon (Fig. 6), which clearly represents an earlier stage in the development of Tetrabelodon, for while it has a similar lower jaw, the upper jaw, though of the same plan, is shorter, and has shorter tusks. The whole skull indeed is less elephant-like, and this Fig. 6.—The Evolution of the Elephant. 11. The Palaeomastodon. fact becomes the more conspicuous when the grinders are examined, for these are more numerous and smaller than in any of the elephants so far examined. Finally, with but a very slight break, we come to what we may almost call the Adam among elephants, represented by the relatively tiny skull of the creature known as Mceritherium