Toxodon

How wonderfully are the different Orders, at the present time so well separated, blended together in different points of the structure of the Toxodon!

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Besides a perfect tooth of the Toxodon, and many scattered bones, I found two immense skeletons near each other, projecting in bold relief from the perpendicular cliff of the Parana.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

In the Pampæan deposit at the Bajada I found the osseous armour of a gigantic armadillo-like animal, the inside of which, when the earth was removed, was like a great cauldron; I found also teeth of the Toxodon and Mastodon, and one tooth of a Horse, in the same stained and decayed state.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Capybara has taken the food of the Toxodon, the Guanaco of the

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

How wonderfully are the different Orders, at the present time so well separated, blended together in different points of the structure of the Toxodon!

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The relationship, though distant, between the Macrauchenia and the Guanaco, between the Toxodon and the Capybara, — the closer relationship between the many extinct Edentata and the living sloths, ant-eaters, and armadillos, now so eminently characteristic of South American zoology, — and the still closer relationship between the fossil and living species of Ctenomys and Hydrochærus, are most interesting facts.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Capybara has taken the food of the Toxodon, the Guanaco of the

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Besides a perfect tooth of the Toxodon, and many scattered bones, I found two immense skeletons near each other, projecting in bold relief from the perpendicular cliff of the Parana.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Rio Negro, I rode there accompanied by my host, and purchased for the value of eighteenpence the head of the Toxodon. 84 When found it was quite perfect; but the boys knocked out some of the teeth with stones, and then set up the head as a mark to throw at.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The relationship, though distant, between the Macrauchenia and the Guanaco, between the Toxodon and the Capybara, — the closer relationship between the many extinct Edentata and the living sloths, ant-eaters, and armadillos, now so eminently characteristic of South American zoology, — and the still closer relationship between the fossil and living species of Ctenomys and Hydrochærus, are most interesting facts.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003