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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 See also:

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

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