anchitherium

[Gr. ἄγχι (angrhi) = near; θηρίον ( thērion ) = a beast, specially a wild beast hunted.] A fo il mammal belonging to the family Palæotheridæ. It has been called also Hipparitherium, suggesting an affinity to the horse in the neighbouring The A. Aurelianense family of Equidæ. occurs in Miocene rocks in Spain, France, Germany, and in Nebraska, but has not hitherto been found in Britain. "The second and fourth toes may be subsequently developed as in the rhinoceros; or they may be represented only by mere splint-like rudiments of their metacarpals, as in the horse. All intermediate conditions are met with in various extinct forms, as Palæotherium, Anchitherium, and Hipparion."-Flower: Osteol. of the Mammal i a (1870), p. 265.