Catalogue of the fossil Mammalia V05, Lydekker 1887

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B6X

CATALOGUE

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Wfiii-

OF THE

FOSSIL

MAMMALIA

BRITISH MUSEUM,
(NATURAL HISTOET)
CROMWELL ROAD,

PART

S.W.

V.

CONTAINING

The Group TILLODOjN^TIA, the Orders SIRENIA, CETACEA,
EDENTATA, MAitSUPIALIA, MONOTREMATA,
AND

SUPPLEMENT.

DY

EICHARD LYDEKKER,

B.A.,

LONDON:
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES.
1887.


PRINTED BY TATLOB AND FRANCIS,
RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET.


PEEFACE.

It

is

no small satisfaction to be able to announce the completion

of the fifth

and

final part of this

Catalogue, of which the

first

was

published less than three years since.

Of

utility to the student of

its

question.
localities
it

If

contained

it

and references

to the

would be of much value

;

Mammalogy

bare

still

there can be no

of specimens with their

list

works in which they are described,
but when, as

characters and descriptions

distinctive

becomes a

a

more important work

is

are

often the case, both

given

of reference,

in

addition,

it

which must be

indispensable in every Biological library.

The

€ollection, under the excellent skill of

assisted

Mr. William Davies,

by Mr. Arthur Smith "Woodward, has been revised, arranged,

and named,

so as to correspond in order, as nearly as the exigencies

of exhibition-space will

permit, with the several suborders and

families proposed in this

Catalogue, references being everywhere

affixed to figured

and described specimens.

To these Assistants and
due

for the admirable

to

manner

Mr. Lydekker
in

my

best thanks are

which they have cooperated

complete the cataloguing and arrangement

of this

of the Palseontological Collection.

HENEY WOODWAED.
British

Museum

(Natural History),

Department of Geology,
August 1, 1887.

to

important section

INTRODUCTION.

With the

present part the List of Fossil

in the collection of the

Museum

is

Mammalia now represented
The Supplement

completed ^

issued herewith comprises all specimens that have been acquired
since the date of publication of the parts in

which they should

properly have been recorded, as well as some of which the affinity

had not been determined

or serial position

at the time

when such

parts were written, and also certain others which after the transference of the collection from Eloomsbury had been deposited in

drawers out of their proper

serial position,

and thus escaped

notice.

The specimens are recorded in about 9820 entries, but many of
such entries include more than a single specimen. The named
species (omitting one or two which have been subsequently found to
be synonyms) are 719 in number, and are arranged under 301 generic
and 100 family headings 106 out of the total being regarded as
Allowing for the aboveindistinguishable from existing forms.
mentioned cases of synonymy (which are noticed in the sequel), it
may be affirmed that among the better-known forms the list of

—

genera and species does not err on the side of redundancy, the
writer having endeavoured as far as possible in this respect to follow
the lead of the Director of the
are founded

however, this

Museum

in not recognizing such as

In imperfectly known forms,
rule cannot be enforced, and it may eventually be

upon

trivial characters

^.

found that among the smaller forms, and in groups like the Tertiary
^

The specimen belonging

to the so-called Antilope torticomis,

Aymard, from

the Pliocene of Auvergue, noticed by Eiitimeyer in his " Kinder der Tertiar-

Epoche," Abh. schw.
identified with
^

pal. Ges., pp.

any specimen in the

See Preface to

'

84-85, as being in the

Museum, cannot be

collection.

List of Cetacea in the British

Museum

'

(1885).


INTRODUCTION.

Vlll

PhocidcB and TrichecTiidoe

and the Physeteroid Cetacea, reductions in
There is of course the danger

that the principle in question may be carried to an extreme, and it
will perhaps prove that in some instances the remains of more than

these respects will be necessary \

a single species have been included under one

name

the writer regards as a less serious error than

its

It

may

be observed that this work, as

however,

this,

;

reverse.

title implies, is

its

merely

a Catalogue of the species and genera represented in the Collection

Museum, and consequently that it does not embrace all the
JFossil Mammalia.
I am indeed well aware how valuable
a work of the latter nature would be if it could be made reliable
and complete
but when I consider the number of names that
of the

known

;

have been relegated to the rank of synonyms from the examination

Museum, and the

of the specimens in the

great uncertainty

existing as to the generic and specific determination of an

number

of the

forms unrepresented in the Collection, I

that the time has not yet arrived

This

fitably undertaken.

time in the case of the

is

when such

a

am

still

immense

convinced

work could be pro-

indeed well illustrated at the present

Mammals

South America, whose history

of the infra-Pampean formation^ of

is

now undergoing

a phase very like

that experienced in the case of those of North America some few

Thus, in the Bulletins of the Academy of Sciences of

years ago.

Cordova, Signer Ameghino proposes a host of

names

for the

Mammals from this

are without illustrations,

it is

formation

new
;

generic and specific

but as these memoirs

often totally impossible to form

conclusion as to the validity of these generic and specific terms

any
;

of

which Dr. Burmeister, of Buenos Ayres, considers a large proportion
are not entitled to stand

In respect

^.

of classification I

have endeavoured throughout not to

form any entirely new scheme, and have in the main
^

If I

folio vred

the

had been describing the remains of these forms de novo I certainly
made the number of genera and species that have been founded

should not have

;

but as the specimens at present available are not sufficient to say decisively
that some of these forms are equivalents of others, the only course has been
to refer the specimens to the genera
^

The

so-called Eutemnodics

crauchenia in

pt.

iii.

and species

mentioned in

to wrhich they

pt.

i.

p.

appear

21, note 5,

to belong,

and the Ma-

from this formation, and are therefore older than
Dr. Burmeister refers the infra-Pampean to the

p, 16, are

the Pleistocene Pampean.
Pliocene, while Signor

Ameghino, on the other hand, regards

it

as representing

the European Oligocene.
•''

Another

difficulty occurs vv^ith reo;ard to existing species, all of w^hich pro-

bably date back to the Pleistocene, although only a moiety have been actually
recorded as

fossils.

.


IX

INTRODUCTION.
.general plan adopted

by Prof. Flower \ although I have found it
and in cases where good
;

necessary to introduce some modifications

working

classifications of particular

specialists,

groups have been prepared by

Thus in the Seleno-

such have frequently been followed.

dont Artiodactyla the classification of Prof. Riitimeyer

^,

of Basle,

has been adopted, while for the Perissodactyla Prof. Cope

A

authority.

new

^

the

is

scheme for the Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla

has recently been proposed by Dr. Schlosser * of Munich, to which
This scheme adopts aphylo-

the reader'sattentionmay be directed.

genetic system of families, and therefore differs very widely from the

systems generally employed, which run, so to speak, transversely to
such phylogenetic stems \

I have not seen the necessity for adopting

the order Bunotheria of Prof. Cope, since
their general primitive nature

is

very diverse forms which are included in

have the support both

of Prof.

appears to

it

me

that

the only bond of union between the

it
and in this view I
Plower and Dr. Schlosser. Neither
;

have I retained Professor Marsh's orders Pantotheria and Allotheria
for the Mesozoic

Mammalia

;

the majority of which appear so nearly

related to existing Marsupials that

it

has been a question whether

some of them should not be included in the modern families. In
his latest memoir Prof. Marsh ^ comes to the conclusion that the
Allotheria,

which comprehend the Diprotodont genera, should be

regarded as at least a suborder of Marsupialia

placental

;

while the Panto-

Polyprotodont genera, are considered as being probably

theria, or
'^.

In the 9th edition of the Encyclopjcdia Britannica,' in the Catalogue of the

^

'

Mammalia

in the

published in the

'

Museum

Proceedings of the Zoological Society

Verb. nat. Ges. Basel,

^

of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, and in a paper

vol. vii. art. 2, pp.

the writer did not propose family

names

'

for 1883.

29-60 (1883).

In that memoir

for the various groups,

and

it

has

been necessary to accord as well as possible with such grouping.
2

Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. vol. xix. pp. 377-403 (1881).

Amendments pro-

posed by the author of this memoir in later papers have been adopted.

1-136 (1886).

*

Morphol. Jahrb.

5

See Cope, Amer. Nat. vol. xx. p. 720 (1886).

vol. xii. pp.

Amer. Journ. ser. 3, vol. xxxiii. p. 345 (1887).
The characters given by Prof. Marsh (op. cit.) as distinctive ot the Pantotheria do not differentiate them from the Marsupialia, and are not all applicable
Thus in some examples of Perameles and Choerojms the
to many of the forms.
^

"^

canine has either a double or a distinctly grooved root {infra, p. 255)

many

of the English Mesozoic genera

angle of the mandible.

appears both to Mr. O.
of

its

marsupial

show a most

The dental succession of Triconoclon {infra,
Thomas and myself to be absolutely conclusive

affinities.

;

while

distinct inflection of the
p.

257)

evidence


X

INTRODTJCTIOIf.

The

necessity of adapting the sequence of the different orders to

the requirements of the parts into which the

work

is

divided has

some departure from an ideal scheme, and the followingtable of the orders and suborders arranged in the manner which
entailed

appears to best represent their mutual relationships

appended

is

accordingly-

:

Subclass

I.

Order

EUTHERIA.
I.

Primates.

Suborder

Order

II.

1.

Anthropoidea.

2.

Lemuroidea.

.

Chieopteea.

Suborder

1.

Megachiroptera.

2. Microchiroptera.

Order III. Insectivoea.
Suborder

1.

Dermoptera.

2. Insectivora

Vera.

Order lY. Caedstivoea.
Suborder

1.

Carnivora Primigenia (or Creodonta).

2.

Carnivora Vera.

3.

Carnivora Pinnipedia.

Order V. Rodentia.
Suborder

Group

1.

Simplicidentata.

2.

Duplicidentata.

Tillodontia.

Order VI. Ungtjlata.
Suborder

1.

Proboscidea.

2.

Amblypoda.

3.

Hyracoidea.

4.

Condylarthra.

5.

Toxodontia.

6.

Perissodactyla.

7. Artiodactyla.

Order VII. Sieenia.
Order VIII. Cetacea.
Suborder

1.

Mystacoceti.

2. Archajoceti.

3. Odontoccti.

Order IX. Edentata.


XI

INTROBTJCTION.

METATHERIA.

Subclass II.

Order X. Maesupialia.
Suborder

Subclass III.

1.

Diprotodontia.

2.

Polyprotodontia.

PEOTOTHEEIA.

Order XI. Moxoteemata.

At the commencement
it

a descriptive one,

work

of the

and proposed

I

had no intention of making

to confine myself to giving notes

on such specimens, species, or groups as appeared to require them.

As the work proceeded, however,

many

seemed advisable, in the case of

it

groups, to notice some of the more important distinctive

characters available in the case of fossils

where I have found
tions,

both in

it

necessary to

and in the

;

make some

and generic characters, the work has become

specific

to a considerable extent descriptive, although it has not

make

necessary to

In a work of

it

later parts,

considerable emenda-

been thought

entirely so.

this nature, it is unfortunately almost impossible to

avoid certain clerical and other slight errors

but since I have had

;

occasion in the course of another work to verify the dental formulae and
descriptive paragraphs, I believe all such errors

In a science

can be completed, some of

like the present

revision

;

have been detected.

like Palaeontology it is inevitable that before a

and I accordingly take

tion to a few instances

where

work

portions require

its earlier

this opportunity of dii^ecting atten-

either

amendments of nomenclature
where it is desirable

or of individual determinations are advisable, or

grounds on which such determinations

to state the

are also mentioned
earlier parts

Among
indkus

(pt.

specific

were published.

i.

p. 2)

and

name

Cijnocejplicdus
iv. pi.

i.

suhliimcdayanus

of the

'

Among

(p.

4) have been

Palaeontologia Indica

;'

it is

entered in the Supple-

the Insectivora, two erroneous identifications

on the authority

while

been assigned to the second C}jnoceplialus

has

noticed on the latter page, under which

ment.

Instances

the Primates the type specimens of Semnopithecus palce-

figured in ser. 10, vol.

a

rest.

where specimens have been figured since the

of Dr.

Praas

^

made

require correction, while attention

should also be directed to some observations of Dr. Pilhol which

had escaped

Aymard, and

In the

notice.

Blainville (pt.

i.

is

pp. 18, 19),
identified
^

first

which

place,
is

Erinacms

ai'vernensis of

the type of AmjyJiechinus of

by Dr. Fraas with Parasore.v

Fauna von Steinheim,

p. 4.

socUdis, is

Xll

INTPvODTlCTION.

regarded by Dr. Filhol
describing

^

latter writer also states

under the name

belonging

as

to

edwardsi from

Palceoerinaceus

that the mandibles entered in pt.

^

observe that "
fossile

;"

p.

i.

17

j'ai

pu etudier provenant

although in the next paragraph he proceeds to

ne

je

In

Erinaceidce.

Gerand-le-Puy, the

Erinaceus arvernensis, Gervais (non Blainv.),

of

" sont absolument semblables a ceux que

de Saint Gerand

the

St.

confondre

crois pas qu'on puisse essayer de

trouve a Saint Gerand avec ceux decouverts dans

le

les terrains

de Cournon et des Chouffours, qui constituent des horizons geologi-

Now

ques diiferents."
are from Cournon,

ments

but

;

if

it is

since the types of E. arvernensis, Gervais,

very

two

difficult to reconcile these

state-

they be really the same as Palceoerinaceus edwardsi,

they must be referred to that genus, although the earlier specific

may

name

should be retained.

differs

from Erinaceus by the greater wddth of the palate, which

Palceoerinaceus,

In the second place, the

without vacuities.

it

be observed,

identification

Fraas in the passage cited of Plesiosorex soricinoides {Erinaceus
cinoides, Blainville)

with Parasorex

aud the specimens entered in

pt.

i.

socialis,

p.

Meyer,

is

by Dr.
sari-

erroneous,

is

19 under the former name

are accordingly re-entered in the Supplement under the latter.

In the Carnivora, a mandible of Machcerodus from the Norfolk
Forest-bed, of which a cast

entered in the Supplement, has afforded

is

strong reasons for doubting the correctness of the identification by

Kaup and Gaudry of the Eppelsheim and Pikermi form with the Yal
d'Arno M. cidtridens. Hyaena antiqua (pt. i. p. (S7) is in all probability
a

synonym of ^.

humerus and

The remarkable
M. 1710-1) from the Quercy Phosphorites,

striata {vide Supplement, p. 315).

tibia (ISTos.

entered on p. 148 of the same part, and provisionally referred (after

Dr. Filhol) to a Ganoid, have been found to agree so closely with the
corresponding bones of the Condylarthra
bility of their

^,

as to suggest the proba-

The only known CondylHyracodontlieriurn'^ which has

belonging to that suborder.

arthrous genus from those deposits

been shown by Dr. Schlosser

is

,

to be nearly allied to Meniscotherium^

^

but the specimens in question appear too large

species of the
'

2

is

Ann.

Sci.

European genus.

Geol. vol.

x. art. 3,

In the Rodentia

for the
it

one known

should have been

pp. 20-21.

0/j. cit. p. 21'.

•*

See Cope, Amer. Nat. vol.

4

See Filhol. Ann.

"

Morpliol. Jahrb. vol.

"

Schlosser (op.

Sci.

xviii. p.

Geol. vol.
xii. p.

cit.) refers

22

799,

fig. 7,

and p. 904, fig. 27 (1884).
283-4 (1877).

viii. pi. xiii. figs.

(188()).

these genera to the Pen'issoclactyla, a view which

not accepted by Cope (Amor. Nat. vol. xx. p. 721 [1880]).


;

INTRODUCTION.

mentioned that Oastoroides
Allen

i.

i.

p.

221)

is

regarded by Coues and

as forming the type of a distinct family,

^

which

placed in

is

Alston's identification of Arvicoila amhiguus

the Hystricomorpha.
(pt.

(pt.

Xlll

231) with Myocles (or Cuniculus) torquatus had escaped
and the specimens are therefore re-entered under the latter

p.

notice,

name

Among

in the Supplement.

the Artiodactyla the type crania

of the Siwalik Antelopes referred in pt.
tragus, Gobus,

ii.

to Strepsicei-os^

and Alcelaphus, have been figured in the

logia Indica,' ser. 10, vol. iv. pis. ii.-iv. (1886)

;

'

and Alcelaphus

b^) has been found to be identical with A. paJce-

hakeri (pt.

ii.

indicus

Metriother ium, incidentally mentioned in part

'^.

p.

more probably belongs
quedentatum

with G.
levsky

*

Hippo-

Palaeonto-

(pt.

ii.

p.

to the Anoplotheriidce.

ii.

60,

p.

Ccenotlierium quin-

is regarded by Dr. Schlosser^ as identical
which was incorrectly referred by KowaThe specimen provisionally referred in the

175)

courtoisi, Gervais,

to

Hyopotamus.

second part

(p.

182) to Xiphodo7i gelyensis

is

made the type of anew
^
has shown that the
Xiphodon.
The same

species in the Supplement, since Dr. Schlosser
so-called

X. gelyensis does not belong to

writer suggests^ that Diplopus (pt.

ii.

p.

216)

identical

is

with

Dichodon, but the bones of the former appear decidedly too large for
the one

known species

In the genus Merycopotamus,

of that genus.

since the publication of pt.

the following specimens, viz.

ii.,

18441, 18442, and M. nanus

similis (p. 209), J^os.

(p.

M.

21?),

disIS'os.

16551, 18407, and 153409, have been figured by the writer in the
'

Palaeontologia Indica,' ser. 10, vol.

Cope

to

Pachynolophus

iii.

originally

In the Toxodontia

mentioned by Messrs. Gervais and Ameghino
Toxodon, No. 49197
incisors larger

(pt.

iii.

referred by

p.

than the second,

Prof.

13) have been made the types of

p.

Heptodon, Cope'^.

genus

the

(pt.

In the Perisso-

iv. pis. v., vi.

dactyla, the North- American forms

^

168), in having the
diff'ers

it

has been

that the cranium of
first

pair of

from the type specimen

of

and agrees with that known as T. hurmeisteri, Giebel ^
and the same feature is also shown in No. 19948.
The mandible
T. platensis,

^

"

Monogr. North American Rodeutia," Rep. U.S.

Greol.

Surv. Terrs, p. 419

(1877).
^

PalaBontologia Indica, op.

3

Op.

cit.

5

Op.

cit. p.

"^

vol.

^

cit. p.

14.

p. 54.

297.

*

Phil. Trans. 1873, p. 25.

'

Ibid. p. 298.

See " Yertebrata of the Tertiaries of the West," Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. Terrs,
iii., Book i. p. 653 (1884).
Mammiferes Fossiles de I'Amerique Meridionale,

8 Zeitschr. ges.

Naturwis.

vol. xxviii. p.

134 (186G).

p.

83 (1880).


;;

XIV

INTEODPCTION".

'No.

19949

agrees, however, in the character of its incisors with the

one referred by Burmeister

^

to T. jjlatensis,

hut in having the canine

separated by a diastema from iTs resembles that of T. hurmeisteri

and accordingly

E. Owen's reference

Sir

the type species has been followed.

It

of

all

may

the specimens to

be observed that

also

whereas Dr. Burmeister describes T. hurmeisteri as considerably
JN'o. 49197 is much smaller than the type
The comparison of a considerable series of specimens

larger than T. platensis,

of the latter.
is

therefore required to determine whether the variation in the form

of the incisors of T. hurmeisteri

is

a character of more than indi-

vidual value.

had escaped

It

angustidens, No.
his

M. 2900

Rhinoceros anti-

of

93, as well as that of Mastodon

(pt. iv.

p. 35), are figured

Museum by

the Council of the Eoyal Society.

of Hipparion gracile, No.
'

by Grew in

pi. xix.

(1761)

thus appears that both specimens were probably presented

it

to the

the

p.

Catalogue of the Earities of Gresham College,'

'

and

iii.

molar

the

that

notice

quitatis figured in part

Nova Acta Ac.

248

(pt.

iii.

p. 53), is

The mandible

figured by

Kaup

distribution of the Indian Pliocene

and Pleistocene Elephants to the

eastward has been more fully worked out by Prof. K. Martin
the publication of pt.

iv.

In

this

in

The

Cses. Leop.-Car.' vol. xvii. pi. xii. b. fig. 3.

memoir E. bomhifrons, E.

^

since
clifti,

E. namadicus, and E. hysudricus are recorded definitely from Java

while the

name

E. {Stegodon) trigonocephalus

from the same island, with a dentition
signis,

p.

and it

is

to the

Indian Sus hysudricus

same form rather than

is also

The

recorded from the same region.

names have been

verified

and I have much pleasure in expressing

Woodward
0. Thomas

pt. iv.

to E. insignis.

practicable the references to the authorities for the

generic and specific
type,

type of that of E. in-

suggested that the Javan specimens noticed in

90 may belong

Whenever

of the

;

applied to two crania,

is

for his aid in this respect.
for

much

I

after they

my

am

were in

debt to Mr. B. B.

also indebted to

valuable assistance and advice in regard to

Mr.
tlie

and nomenclature of the Marsupialia, and I may
observe that it was only after full consultation with him that the
generic terms Triacanthodon, Peraspalaoc, and probably Peralestes

classification

were velegatcd
^

to the

rank of synonyms.

An. Mus. Buenos Aires,

vol. pis. ix.-xi.

T.

Mr.

W.

Davies has again

Oweni, Burmeisteiv

is

appar-'

ently identical with the typical T. platensis.
" Beitr. Geol. Ost-Asiens u. Austral," Samral. geol. Eeichs-Mus. Leiden,
'^

vol

iv. pt.

2 (1887).


XV

INTKODUCTION.

been good enough to undertake the laborious task of checking the
entries of each specimen, and has also, as before, given me the
advantage of his great personal knowledge of the history of indiThanks are due to Mr. Medlicott, late Director of

vidual specimens.

the Geological Survey of India, to Prof. E. D. Cope, to Prof. H. A.
Nicholson and Messrs. Blackwood, to the Councils of the Geological,

and Palseontographical

Zoological,

memoirs, for

of various

Societies, as well as to the authors

permission to use woodcuts from their

publications.

The Beckles
was purchased

Collection,

mentioned for the

1876 from Mr.

in

first

time in this part,

H. Beckles of Hastings.

S.

RICHAUD LYDEKKEE.
The Lodge, Harpenden,
Hertfordshire.

June

10, 1887.

POSTSCRIPT.
Since the above was sent to press the abstract of a memoir by
Dr. Osborn, of Princeton, on Mesozoic

Mammalia

Philad. June 21, 1887), has reached me.

Amphitylus
p.

is

(Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci.

In this memoir the genus

founded on the undetermined specimen, No. M. 2299,

unnamed
made the type of

272, of the text, and AiJirodon upon the

logued on p. 291

which

is

Bolodon

is

definitely referred to

classification of Prof.

I cannot consider

new

family,

and the mandible No. 36822 mentioned on

figured,

and

maxillae cata-

a

The maxiUa

regarded as allied to the PhascolomyidcE.

also figured

on the

the latter being

;

it

Marsh

p.

or

274

An emendation
may observe that

Awphitherium.

is

proposed.

I

proved that the maxillae on which Athrodon

is

founded do not belong to one of the genera of which only the mandible is described, although I

may add

am

not prepared to say which

;

and I

that the resemblance of the molars of Sjpalacotherium and

other forms to those of CJuysocliloris

is

analogous to that existing

between the corresponding teeth of Perameles and Tupaia, and does
not therefore appear to
to the Insectivora.

by Pomel

for a

afi'ord

grounds for the reference of the former

The name Diplocynodon, Marsh,

is

preoccupied

genus of Crocodilidce.

In addition to the above, the following memoirs would have been
them reached this country in time.

noticed in the text had copies of


XVI

INTRODUCTION.

memoir on Cetacea from the Belgian Crag,
in the ^Ann. Mus. E. Hist. Nat. Belg.'
vol. xiii. pt. 5 (1886), containing figures and descriptions oiAmphicetus, Heterocetus, Mesocetus, Idiocetus, and Isocetus
one by Dr. "W.
B. Scott, " On some New and Little-known Creodonts," in the
Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad.' vol. ix. pt. 2 (1886) and a third, by
These comprise

by

Prof.

a

Yan Beneden,

;

'

;

Dr. Burmeister, forming a continuation of the
tion Physique de la Hepublique Argentine,'

graden,

In the

pt.

i.

Scelidotherium and

latter

(p.

^

(p.

Atlas de la Descrip-

— Osteologie der Gravi-

Mylodon (Buenos Ayres, 1886)\

103) the MS. name Scelidotherium

revived for S. tarijense (infra, p. 102)

don oweni

'

Ill)

may be

The cranium represented

identical

;

while the

with M.

new

magnum

species

lettsomi {infra, p. 108).

in pi. xiv. figs. 2, 3, as Scelidotherium

lejptocephalum appears to belong to S. bravardi (infra, p. 96),

shows
less

(as I

and

thought to be the case) that the length of the nasals

is

than half that of the entire cranium.
^' L-

July 26, 1887.

^

is

Mylo-

This

is

the portion of the Atlas alluded to by myself in the

See' 1886, p. 491

;

its

'

Proc. Zool.

publication having apparently been long delayed.

^ The names applied
more than MS. ones.

to these

forms by Bravard can hardly be reckoned as


SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

[Existing species are denoted by an asterisk.]

Page

Ordinal position uncertain.

Group

TiLLOBONTIA

Family

ANCHIPPODOIS'TID^
Anchippodus

Family

1
1

ripariiis

2

PLATYCHCEEOPID^

3

Platychoerops richardsoni

Order

.

SIEENIA
Family

5

HALITHERIID^
Halitherium forestii

5

....;..

6

canhami

7
7

schinzi

12
12

Prorastomus sirenoides

Eotherium aigyptiacum

......

EHYTINID^

V.

13
15
15

Rhytina gigas
TAKT

5

fossile

-sp

Family

4

6


XVIU

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

Page

Order

GET ACE A

^MhoidLQv

16

^

MYSTACOGETI

Family

16

BALiENID^

16

*Bal8ena mysticetus

17

affinis

17

*

biscayensis

19

primigenia

20

balsenopsia

23

insignis

26

Palseocetus sedgwicki

31

Megaptera

32

affinis

similis

33

minuta

33

Balsenoptera definita

*

——

34

goropi

36

borealis

38

borealina

39

emarginata

40

sp

41

(?)juddi

41

(?) sp

41

Cetotherium brialmonti

42

dubium

43

burtini

hupscbi

46

affine

47

AECIf^OCETI

Family

ZEUGLOUONTID^

^

45

brevifrons

Herpetocetus scaldiensis

i^iihorder

44
.

Zeuglodon cetoides

47

49

^9
50


SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

XIX

Page

Suborder

ODONTOOETI

53

PHYSETEEIDiE

53

Subfamily Physeterinje

53

Eamily

53

*Physeter macrocephalus
Physeterula dubusi

54

Eucetiis amblyodon

5-i

Physetodon baileyi

57

Scaldicetas carreti

58

Balaenodon physaloides

58

Physodon grandis

59
59-

fusiformis

60

Hoplocetus crassidens

61

borgerhontensis

curvidens

'.

.

Subfamily Ziphiin^

63

*Hyperoodon rostratus

63

63

sp

Choneziphius planirostris

......

planus

Family

64
67

Mesoplodon longirostris

68

tenuirostris

71

•

Eamily

Q2

.

gibbus

71

angustus

72

angulatus

73

compressus

73

PLATANISTID^

74

Champsodelphis, sp

74

Schizodelphis sulcatus

74

SQUALODONTID^

75

Squalodon grateloupi

76

77

catulli

atlanticus

77

62


XX

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

Family

DELPHINID^
*Monodon monoceros

78

....*..

*Delphinapterus leucas

78
79

.

79

broccMi

80

Orca citoniensis

81

*Globicephalus melas

81

uncidens

84

*Tursiops tursio

Genus non

Order

84

clet

EDENTATA
Family

85

MEGATHEMID^

85

Megatherium americanum

86
90

mirabile

90

lundi

Scelidotherium leptocephalum

....

96

bravardi
chiliense

99

tarijense

102

Mylodon darwini

105

harlani

106

robustus

107

lettsomi

108
110

armatus
gracilis

Megalonyx

jefFersoni

Coelodon maquiuensis

Family

92

GLYPTODONTIDJE
Glyptodon clavipes

.

Ill

Ill

113

114
11.5

rcticulatus

117

sp. rt.

120

ouphractus
Dtedicurus clavicaudatus

121

122

Euryurus rudis

124

Panochtbus tuberculutus

125


SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

Pamily

GLYPTODONTID^

Xxi

{continued).

Page

Hoplophorus meyeri

127

ornatus

128

a

130

sp.

(?)sp.

&.

131

.

132

sp

Family

elegans

132

(?)sp.c

133

DASYPODID^

135

Chlamydotherium giganteum

136

humboldti

136

*Tolypeutes conurus

138

*Dasypus

138

villosus

*Xenurus unicinctus

139

140

Eutatus seguini

Family

*Tatusia novemcincta

141

punctata

141

MANIDtE

142

142

*Manis gigantea
Family

MACEOTHEEIID^

142

Macro theriiim sindiense

143

144

giganteum
Subclass

Order

METATHERIA

MAKSUPIALIA.

146
.

.

.

MARSUPIALIA DIPROTODONTIA
Family PHASCOLOMYID^

Suborder

146

•

...

146
148

Phascolomys magnus
*

medius

149

latifrons

151

kreflfti

151

curvirostris

152
152

mitchelli

*

146

platyrhinus

.

]

55


SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

Xxii

Family

PHASCOLOMYID^

{continued).

Page

Phascolomys thomsoni

Family

156

.

—— parvus

156

Phascolonus gigas

15/

NOTOTHERIID^

161

162

Nototherium mitchelli

Family

DIPEOTODONTID^

169

Diprotodon australis

170

PHALANGISTIDJE

188

Subfamily Phalangistin^

188

Family

189

*Pseudocliirus caudivolvulus

Subfamily Thtlacoleontin-^

189

Thylacoleo carnifex

189

PLAGIATJLACID^

195

Family

Plagiaulax becklesi
r

Family

.

198

falconeri

198

minor

198

POLTMASTODONTID^
Polymastodon taoensis

Family

Family

Family

197

medius

.199
200

TRITYLODONTIDJE

200

Tritylodon long[Bvus

201

BOLODONTID^

202

Microlestes moorci

203

Bolodon crassidens

203

MACROPODID^.

.

Subfamily PoTORoiNiE

*-^pyprymnus nifescens

204
205
205


SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

Eamily

MACROPODID^

XXlll

{continued).

Page
Subfamily MACROPODiisriE

Macropus brehus
rsechus

anak
minor
*

ualabatus

*

parryi

*

penicillatus

*

robustus
altus

cooperi

*

giganteus
titan

ferragus

Stbenurus atlas
Procoptodon goliah
rai)ha

otuel

.

237

Palorchestes azael

MABSUPIALIA POLYPROTODONTIA
Family PEEAMELID^

Suborder

'

.

.

obesula

*

bougainvillei

254

254

256
257

sp

*Peragale lagotis

Family

.

255
256
256

*Perameles nasuta
*

206
207
212
214
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
225
230
232

234
235
236

TEIC0N0D0:N'TID^

257

Triconodon mordax

258
260
262

.

ferox

major

DASTURID^

263

Subfamily Dasttjein^

263
264
265
268

Family

Thylacinus

speloeiis

Sarcophilus laniarius

*Dasyurus yiverrinus
Subfamily Mtrmecobiin^

...
.

...

269


SYSTEMATIC IN^DEX.

Page

Family

AMPHITHEBIID^

269

Phascolotherium bucklandi

270

Amphilestes

272

Genus non

(?) sp

272

del

Amphitherium

273

prevosti

274

Amblotherium soricinum
talpoides

275

muste^uia

275
276

Achyrodon nanus

277

pusillus

Peramus

Family

277

tenuirostris

DIDELPHYID^

278

*Didelpliys azarse

280

*

crassicaudata

280

*

nudicaudata

281

*

cinerea

281

*

grisea

*

murina

*

elegans

*

pusilla
sp.

281
.

.

282

:

282
282

'•

a

'

283
283

affinis

antiqua

283

arvernensis

284

blainvillei

284

exilis

285

lemanensis

285

sp. 6

286

sp. c

286

lemandini

.........

aymardi
cadurcensis

*Chironecte8 minimus

286
287
288
289


XXV

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

Family

STYLODONTID^

.

.

28^9

'.

290

Stylodon pusillus

290

robustus

Genus non

det. {incerta sedis)

Leptocladus dubius

Family

SPALACOTHEIlIIDiE
Spalacotherium tricuspidens

minus
Peralestes longirostris

Subclass

Order

.

.

.

.

291

292

292
292
293

294

PROTOTHERIA

295

MOXOTREMATA

295

Family

ECHIDNID^
Echidna oweni

295

295

SUPPLEMENT.
Families and species mentioned in the earlier parts are marked t.

Order

PRIMATES

Suborder

297

ANTHROPOIDEA

297

SIMIID^

297

tFamily

tFamily

Troglodytes sivalensis

297

Hylobates, sp

298

CERCOPITHECID^

298

*Semnopithecus entellus

298

Cynocephalus falconeri
sp

Suborder

LEMUROIDEA

tFamily

298

298
299

LEMURID^

299

tAdapis magna

299

Caenopithecus lemuroides

299

SYSTEMATIC INDEX,

XXyi

Page

Order C

HIE

Suborder

PTERA

300

MICROOHIROPTERA

300

EHI^-OLOPHID^

.300

tFamily

*Phyllorhina diadema

Pamily

Order

tFamily

tFamily

300

*Taphozous saccolsemus

300
300

.

TALPID^

300

Talpa tj^rrhenaica

300

Protalpa cadurcensis

301

SOEICID^

301

Sorex similis

301

EEINACEID^

301

Erinaceus oeningensis

301

Neurogymnurus minor

302

major

Family

302

(n. sp.)

MICE . CHCEEID^

.......

TUPAIIDiE

Parasorex

Order

.

305

CARNIVORA PRIMIGENIA

tFamily

HY^NODONTID^

.

tHyoenodon leptorhyncbus

305

305
305

vulpinus

306

tPterodon dasyuroides

306

PEOVIVEEEID^

307

t

Family

304

304

socialis

CAENIYOEA

Suborder

303
303

Microchoerus erinaceus

tFamily

300

EMBALLONUEID^

INSECTIYOEA
tPamily

.......

Proviverra cayluxi

309

Deltatheiium fundaraiijis

309


XXVU

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

Page

CARNIVORA VERA
tFamily PELID^

310

Suborder

310

tMachaerodus cultridens

310

aphanistus

310

311

Eusmilus bidentatus

312

Pseudselurus quadridentatus

edwardsi

312

tProaelurus lemanensis

313

^lurogale intermedia

313

HY^Is'lD^

315

tFamily

315

t*Hy8ena crocuta
t
t*

tFamily

felina

.

.

315

.'

315

striata

VIYEERID^

316

Viverra karnuliensis

316

316

*Herpestes griseus

317

lemanensis

UESID^

tFamily

317

tCj^nodictis leptorhj^ncha

317

*Canis dingo

317

tAmphieyon ambignus

318

Family

PEOCYONID^

318

318

*Nasua rnfa

CARNIVORA PRIMIGENIA
tFamily PHOCID^

319

Phoca rugosidens

319

319

Suborder

E

DEN TIA
Suborder RODENTIA SniPLICJDENTATA

Order

tFamily

MUEID^
*Gerbilliis indicus

320

...

820

'.320
320