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Show RARE SKELETON ,18 FOUND. H ones of the Loxolophodon Secured' M from Southern Wyoming. H Thero arrived In Now York last H wcok for tho Museum ofNatural Ills- H tory tho skeleton of n loxolophodon. It H wus unearthed In southern Wyoming, H whoro Un great beast roamed In largo H numbers many centuries ngo, by an H expedition sent out from thu musounj H by I'ror. II. F. Osborn and hcadod by H I'raf. Wnlter Granger. Speaking ot H tho success attending tho search, H Prof. Grangor said: H "Wo found tho Bkeloton ot tho H Inrgost mammal living nt tho tlmo WM and for which wo tnudu careful soarch. In This hugo ummmitl was known as tho ' Km loxolophodon, u mlxturu of olophnnt Ell and rhinoceros. It had six horns -H two enormous ones in tho back of tho H Bkull, two smallor nnos nvor tho oyes H and two rudimentary horns on tho H tip of tho noso. H "Wo obtained nn Interesting lot ot H tho skeletons or tho tltanothores, a H smaller nulmal than tho last; nurnor- H ous specimens of tho enrvora, Includ- H Ing tho largest of tho tlmo, tho mos- B onyx; ninny rodents, or squlrrol-llko -HI mammals; sumo of tho earliest camel- H llko, oven toed, hoofed mummuls; an H nchonedou, one of thu very largo, evou toed animals, with plgllkn tooth and H feet und nu early prlmute Ijke tho "H lemurs, niithnrctus. In nil wo ob- M talnod 100 species In tho Washnkto j basin, 100 In tho Hrtdifos basin und 40 M In tl.o Wnhnatch baaln." JH A |