Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1917 — UNEARTH A PILLOTHERIUM [ARTICLE]

UNEARTH A PILLOTHERIUM

Men Find Skeleton of Animal That Lived 2,000,000 Years Ago. The skeleton of a pillotherium, an ar imal about the size of a black bear and described as resembling a rodent, which, according to scientists, was in its heyday between the years 2,998,084 and 2,498,084 B. C., has been added to the collection of the American Museum of* Natural History. New York City. The skeleton is the only complete one of its kind in the world, it was said. It was found in Colorado by an expedition of scientists, after a twenty years’ hunt. Fragmentary pieces of the pillotherium have been unearthed before and are in the Yale collection. It is also announced that Albert Thomson, in charge of the museum’s expedition in Nebraska, had secured two specimens of the pliohyrus, pronounced to be a missing link between the three-toed horse and the modern horse. This animal has one toe on each foot. .. . "