Anoplotherium

[From Gr. av ( an ), priv., ὅπλον ( hoplon ) = a weapon, and θηρίον (therion) = beast. "Unarmed beast." The name refers to the absence of such natural weapons as tusks, long and sharp, canine teeth, horns or claws.] The appellation given by Cuvier to a genus of hoofed quadrupeds found in the middle Eocene gypsum of the Paris basin. It is the type of the family A no plot he ridæ (q.v.). A curious peculiarity of the SKELETON OF ANOPLOTHERIUM. Anoplotherium genus, shared only by man, is that the incisors and canine teeth were so equally developed that they formed one unbroken series with the premolars and true molars. The A. commune was about four and a-half feet long, or with the tail, eight feet. It is found not merely in the vicinity of Paris, but also in the contemporary Eocene strata of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. [A NO PLOT HERE.] (Owen: Brit. Fo . Mamm. & Birds, pp. 432-439.)