10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAPIROID»
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The Beginning of the Age of Mammals
Tapiroid and palaeothere skulls: (A) Eocene tapiroid Heptodon; (B) Eocene
tapiroid Lophialetes; (C) extant tapiroid Tapirus; (D) Eocene—early Oligocene
palaeothere Palaeotherium. Not to scale. (A—C from Radinsky, 1965a; D from
Franzen, ...
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Palæontological Memoirs and Notes of the Late Hugh Falconer: ...
Garnett, near Attock, is a. portion of the lower Jaw Of a tapiroid animal containing
what appear to be the last premolar and the first and second true molars. Of thls
specimen I have received an excellent drawing executed 1})' Col. Baker, who ...
Hugh Falconer, Charles Murchison, 1868
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Palaeontological memoirs and notes of... Hugh Falconer,... ...
Antoletherium.' Among the fossils discovered by Lieut. Garnett, near Attock, is a
portion of the lower jaw of a tapiroid animal containing what appear to be the la-st
premolar and the first and second true molars. Of this specimen I have received ...
4
Life in the Primeval World: Founded on Meunier's "Les ...
Cory;/rodon Eocaenm, or Eocene Coryphodon; a tapiroid pachyderm, forming a
link between the proboscidian and tapiroid families of the pachydermata. Though
a third larger than the largest tapir of South America, its habits were probably ...
William Henry Davenport Adams, Victor Meunier, 1872
5
The moon, theory and tables
It is remarkable that the Miocene of the West, so greatly developed as it is on both
sides of the Rocky Mountains, should have yielded but a few fragments of
tapiroid mammals, and the same is true of the Pliocene of that region. In the
Miocene ...
6
A History of British Fossil Mammals, and Birds
The large extinct tapiroid Pachyderms have left their remains on the continent in
both miocene and eocene formations : in England they are represented by scanty
but extremely interesting fossils, which have been obtained from the eocene ...
It is remarkable that the'Miocene of the West, so greatly developed as it is on both
sides of the Rocky Mountains, should have yielded but a few fragments of
tapiroid mammals ; and the same is true of the Pliocene of that region. In the
Miocene ...
Aided by different local adaptive radiation, probably in the forested rcgins of
southern Eurasia, the Dcinotheres with their brachyodont, tapiroid grinding teeth
were able to compete with the buuomastodont genera, Trilophodon,
Tetrelophcdon, ...
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Applications of X-ray Computed Tomography in the Geosciences
These sinuses are not present in the new Eocene fossil tapiroid, which also lacks
elevated frontals, an indication of the importance of these sinuses in the overall
architecture of the skull. Non-destructive examination of fossils in amber Insects ...
Shortly after this initial perissodactyl divergence the ceratomorph line separated
into two families, both tapiroid: the Isectolophidae, comprising at that time the
primitive Homogalax stock, and the Helaletidae, a more advanced offshoot.
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TAPIROID»
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Images: Fossils Reveal Tiny Tapir and Hedgehog
Shown here a reconstruction of an Eocene rainforest, some 52 million years ago, around a northern British Columbia lake, showing the newfound tapiroid ... «LiveScience.com, Jul 14»
