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DINOTHERIUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 278 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DINOTHERIUM  , an

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extinct mammal, fossil remains of which
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Cilicia for Rome (18o) and became a member of the senate. occur in the
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Miocene beds of France, Germany,
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Greece and During the reign of Commodus, Dio practised as an'advocate at
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Northern India . These consist chiefly of teeth and the bones of the
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Roman bar, and held the offices of aedile and quaestor . He the head . An entire
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skull, obtained from the
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Lower Pliocene was raised to the praetorship by Pertinax (193), but did not beds of Eppelsheim, Hesse-
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Darmstadt, in 1836, measured 4a ft. assume office till the reign of Septimius Severus, with whom he in length and 3 ft. in breadth, and indicates an animal exceeding was for a long time on the most intimate footing . By Macrinus the
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elephant in
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size . The upper jaw is apparently destitute of he was entrusted with the administration of Pergamum and incisor and canine teeth, but possesses five molars on each side, Smyrna; and on his return to Rome he was raised to the with a corresponding number in the jaw beneath . The most consulship about 220 . After this he obtained the proconsulship remarkable feature, however, consists in the front
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part of the of Africa, and again on his return was sent as legate successively lower jaw being bent downwards and bearing two tusk-like to Dalmatia and
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Pannonia . He was raised a second time to incisors also directed downwards and backwards . Dinotherium the consulship by Alexander Severus, in 229; but on the plea is a member of the
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group Proboscidea, of the
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line of descent of of
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ill
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health soon afterwards retired to Nicaea, where he died. the elephants .

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