See also:

• PALAEOTHERIUM (i.e. ancient animal)

PALAEOTHERIUM (i.e. See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• ANIMAL
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal)  , a name applied by See also:

• CUVIER, GEORGES LEOPOLD CHRETIEN FREDERIC DAGOBERT, BARON (1769-1832)

Cuvier to the remains of ungulate mammals recalling tapirs in See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance, from the See also:

• LOWER

Lower Oligocene See also:

• GYPSUM

gypsum quarries of See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris . These were the first indications of the (From the Paris gypsum.) Restoration of See also:

• PALAEOTHERIUM (i.e. ancient animal)

Palaeotherium magnum . (About } nat. See also:

• SIZE

size.) occurrence in the fossil See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of perissodactyle ungulates allied to the See also:

• HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse, although it was See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long before the relationship was recognized . The palaeotheres, which range in size from that of a See also:

• PIG
• PIG (a word of obscure origin, connected with the Low Ger. and Dut. word of the same meaning, bigge)

pig to that of a small See also:

• RHINOCEROS

rhinoceros, are now regarded as representing a See also:

• FAMILY

family, Palaeotheriidae, nearly related to the horse-tribe, and having, in fact, probably originated from the same ancestral stock, namely, Hyracotheriurn of the Lower See also:

• EOCENE (Gr. *In, dawn, icauvos, recent)

Eocene (see See also:

• EQUIDAE

EQUIDAE) . The connecting See also:

• LINK

link with Hyracotherium was formed by Pachynolophus (Propalaeotherium), and the See also:

• LINE

line apparently terminated in Paloplotherium, which is also Oligocene . Representatives of the family occur in many parts of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, but the typical genus is unknown in See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• AMERICA

America, where, however, other forms occur . Although palaeotheres resemble tapirs in general appearance, they differ in having only three toes on the fore as well as on the See also:

• HIND

hind See also:

• FOOT

foot . The dentition normally comprises the typical See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of 44 See also:

• TEETH (O.E. Eel); plural of tooth, O.E. top)

teeth, although in some instances the first premolar is wanting . The cheek-teeth are See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short-crowned, generally with no See also:

• CEMENT (from Lat. caementum, rough pieces of stone, a shortened form of caedimentum, from caedere, to cut)

cement, the upper molars having a W-shaped See also:

• OUTER

outer See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall, from which proceed two oblique transverse crests, while the lower ones carry two crescents . Unlike the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early horses, the later premolars are as complex as the molars; and although there is a well-marked See also:

• GAP

gap between the canine and the premolars, there is only a very short one between the former and the incisors . The See also:

• ORBIT (from Lat. orbita, a track, orbis, a wheel)

orbit is completely open behind . In other respects the palaeotheres resemble the ancestral horses .

They were, however, essentially See also:

• MARSH (O. F. mersc, for merisc, a place full of "meres" or pools; cf. Ger. Meer, sea, Lat. mare)
• MARSH, ADAM (ADAM DE MARISCO) (d. c. 1258)
• MARSH, GEORGE PERKINS (1801-1882)
• MARSH, HERBERT (1757–1839)
• MARSH, NARCISSUS (1638-1713)
• MARSH, OTHNIEL CHARLES (1831-1899)

marsh-dwelling animals, and exhibit no tendency to the See also:

• CURSORIAL

cursorial type of See also:

• LIMB

limb so characteristic of the horse-line . They were, in fact, essentially inadaptive creatures, and hence rapidly died out . (R .