Douglass : Dromomeryx. 459 



These discoveries showed conclusively that the larger species 

 described as Blastomeryx borealis Cope and B. antilopinus Scott were 

 very different from the true Blastomeryx. I had not access to the 

 Euroj^ean specimens which had been described as Palccomeryx , or to 

 the literature describing them, but I judged from the writings of 

 others that the larger American species were PalcBomeryx. 



The above mentioned skeletal remains show by far the greater 

 number of the osteological characters of Blastomeryx borealis Cope. 

 A restoration of the skeleton was made by Mr. Sydney Prentice under 

 my direction and a paper was read before the American Society of 

 Vertebrate Paleontologists, on " The Restoration of Palaomeryx 

 borealis " in 1906 ; but on account of the doubt concerning the rela- 

 tion of this animal to the type of Palceomeryx and to other European 

 Palceomerycince, the paper was not published. The author wished, on 

 the one hand to avoid further perpetuating the use of a name that 

 would be misleading, and on the other hand to refrain from creating 

 a synonym. 



The generic name Palceomeryx was given by Hermann von Meyer 

 in 1834 to various fragments of jaws and teeth found at Georgensmund 

 in southeastern Bavaria. In the paper,^ which contains the original 

 description, several teeth and portions of the mandible were described. 

 Evidently the specimens do not all belong to the same species and 

 perhaps not to the same genus. Apparently the portion of a man- 

 dible with teeth, illustrated on Plate X, Fig. 77, should be taken as 

 the type, as it is the first used in establishing the characters of the 

 genus. Other specimens, in part at least from supposedly different 

 Miocene horizons, have since been variously referred by European 

 authors to Palceomeryx, Dicrocerus, Cervus, Dromotherium, Pro- 

 palaomeiyx, etc. 



The types of Palceomeryx are not accessible, and I do not know 

 whether they still exist ; but I judged from von Meyer's figures and 

 descriptions that Palceomeryx was different from anything that had 

 been found in America ; and in fact I was for some time satisfied in 

 my own mind that the fossil remains which were referred to Blasto- 

 meryx by Cope and to Palceomeryx by myself, had been erroneously 

 referred to these genera. Dr. Matthew has entirely removed doubt 



^ Die Fossilen Zdhne und Knochen und Ihre Ablageiung in der Gegend von 

 Georgensmund in Bayern. Abhandlungen der Senck. Nat. Ges. , Supplement zu 

 Band I, 1834, pp. 93-98. 



