Extinct Uintatherium and Toxodon (price is for both models)

A really nice pair of one-off original plaster models made by the British Museum.  There are many hours of skilled work by top artists in these items.  Price is for both models.

Both models are approximately:
19" long
10.5" high
7" deep

Uintatherium is an extinct genus of mammals. Fossil remains were first discovered by Joseph Leidy in 1872 near Fort Bridger, Uinta County, Wyoming, USA.  It was a large browsing animal, about the size of a rhinoceros. Its most unusual feature was the skull, large and strongly built and, at the same time, flat and concave skull: this feature is not found in any other mammal, save perhaps in some brontotheres. Its cranial cavity was exceptionally small due to the walls of the cranium being exceedingly thick. The weight of the skull was mitigated by numerous sinuses permeating the walls of the cranium, like those in an elephant's skull.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uintatherium

Toxodon is an extinct mammal of the late Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs about 2.6 million to 16,500 years ago.  It was indigenous to South America and was probably the most common large-hoofed mammal in South America at the time of its existence.  Charles Darwin was one of the first to collect Toxodon fossils, after paying 18 pence for a T. platensis skull from a farmer in Uruguay. In The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin wrote "November 26^th - I set out on my return in a direct line for Monte Video. Having heard of some giant's bones at a neighbouring farmhouse on the Sarandis, a small stream entering the Rio Negro, I rode there accompanied by my host and purchased for the value of eighteen pence the head of the taxodon." Since Darwin discovered that the fossils of similar mammals of South America were different from those in Europe, he invoked many debates about the evolution and natural selection of animals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxodon

By: [Mike Gadd]

Item Location: West Yorkshire