It reached a length of forty-seven feet, and in bulk must have equalled the mammoth or the mastodon or the largest living elephants.

The massive hind limbs, supporting the whole weight of the body, exceeded the limbs of the great proboscideans in bulk, and in a standing position the animal was eighteen to twenty feet high, as against twelve for the largest African elephants or the southern mammoth.

The head (see frontispiece) is 4 feet 3 inches long, 3 ft.

4 inches deep, and 2 ft.

9 inches wide; the long deep powerful jaws set with teeth from 3 to 6 inches long and an inch wide.