In* re Mantodon of Alanpa wt» Fcuador
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Dear Sirfi:
Since 1907 I have beeil enpagod in aonographing the ProbOHoidea of tihe iorld. Your article publinhed in Natpr und Museum, February, 1929:
Da« letzt e Maatodon von Südamerika
ha« deeply intorested me and i« of very great, palaeonto- lopic aa well an anthropoiop ic import:«.nce. a« my Mono- graph ia rapid ly ne&ring ccmptetion and Chnpter XII on 1 the Maatodontp of South America in b<->inp fivally fevißed, I beg your kind soöperation in anawer to the fol owing dubyitions, which perhapg you have -,lready oovered (in whble or in part) in a acionttfic “Uhlication:
1) Do, thfc oranium and tußka (Ahh, S,4) reeeable the
j£. ftDdiuPi Ouv. or the M. huaholdtli ? The M.
; anfliuia has & r«latively flattened Btcul^ and phbrt frontal«, witii tsieted tu »kB and lateral enftmel band. The M. humboldtii ha« an elevated «Jcull and lonp frontale, tun Le without enamei behd, «hört maxillary aymphyei«, and broader ■ teeth.
2) Would you Kindlv givo me thr* nuaber and measure-
rnents o.f the nkeleti 1 hone«, at-, fol low«:
l«iipth of bonv palato to oondylo« (Abb,4)
Lenpth of f irnt mtnorior molar
«idth ,'Of „Barne . ■ . ,
Length of «ooond nuperior molar
rfidth of name
Lonpth of third «uperior molar Width of Base
Prof. Dr. Franz Spilltaann and Prof. Dr. Efsx Uhle UntverHidad Central del Fcuador