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  • It would seem, then, that the Manatee makes one in this series of Dinotherium, Mastodon, and Elephant, and represents the aquatic Pachyderms, occupying the same relation to the terrestrial

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

  • A rich mammaliferous deposit (_Hipparion_, _Rhinoceros_, _Dinotherium_, _Mastodon_, &c.) of this period has been found near Mesemvria.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • Some resemblance of the Dinotherium to the Mastodon suggested a comparison with that animal as the next step in the investigation, when it was found that at the edge of the lower jaw of the latter there was a pit with a small projecting tooth, also corresponding exactly in its position to the tusk in the Dinotherium.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

  • In these beds to the north of the Salt Range there have been found remains of Dinotherium, forms related to the ancestors of the giraffe and various other mammals, some of them, like the Sivatherium, Mastodon, and Stegodon, being animals of great size.

    The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894

  • There were the Dinotherium and the Megatherium, either one of which would have knocked spots out of any leopard that ever was made, and along side of which even my woolly horse would have paled into insignificance.

    A House-Boat on the Styx John Kendrick Bangs 1892

  • To this in the fossil world are added two more genera -- the _Mastodon_ and _Dinotherium_.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • Hipparion, an ancestral form of horse; the Helladotherium, a huge animal bigger than the giraffe; the Ancylotherium, one of the Edentata; the huge Dinotherium; the Aceratherium, allied to the rhinoceros; and the monstrous Chalicotherium, allied to the swine and ruminants, but as large as a rhinoceros; and to prey upon these, the great Machairodus or sabre-toothed tiger.

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • Dinotherium; here is a leg bone which belonged to the Megatherium.

    Voyage au centre de la terre. English Jules Verne 1866

  • Dinotherium, -- monsters the very description of which fill us with horror, -- bats with wings twenty feet in breadth, flying dragons, tortoises ten feet high and eighteen feet long, etc., etc., came one and all from the same primordial germ.

    What is Darwinism? Charles Hodge 1837

  • Dinotherium, or a few such extraordinary modifications of the ordinary mammalian framework as that exhibited in the enormously massive pelvic arches and hinder limbs of the Mylodon and Megatherium.

    The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829

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