Text Appearing Before Image: 12 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURXAL bones of one animal together was unusual, and this fact renders difficult the efforts to determine the relationships of the peculiar forms that were encountered. With one or two minor exceptions, the entire known fauna of the Upper Eocene of the region is represented in the collection obtained by our expedition, and there is much material which will add to the pub- lished knowledge of these forms. In addition, several new forms were discovered, some of them representing new families. The collection is particularly rich in remains of the primitive carnivores, or creodonts, Text Appearing After Image: EXHUMING SKULL OF ARSI NOITH ERIUM. In the background the northern rim of the Fayoviin depression. of which two splendid skulls were obtained. The artiodactyls are well represented, as are also the hyracoids, animals with supposed relation- ship to the living Hijrax, or Coney. Of considerable scientific im- portance was the discovery of rodents, which are represented in our specimens by at least two genera. The largest and most striking find in the Fayum deposits was the Arsinoitherium, an animal with a body suggesting both an elephant and a rhinoceros. The head carried a pair of enormous horns on the
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