1010.] Cope's Classification of 1891 and 1898. 99 



Order Bunotheria [Cope]. 



Suborder Pantotheria [Marsh]. 

 " Creodonta [Cope]. 

 " Insectivora [cf. Cuvier]. 



Tillodonta [Marsh]. 

 " Tseniodonta [Cope]'. 

 Order Carnivora [auct.]. 



Suborder FissipecUa [Bhuiien))ach]. 

 " PinnipecUa [Storr, IlUger]. 

 Order Ancylopoda ' (Chalicotheria) [Cope]. 

 Ungulata [Linn.]. 



Order Taxeopoda [Cope]. 



Suborder Condylarthra [Cope]. 

 " Litopterna [Ameghino]. 

 " Hyracoidea [Huxley]. 

 " Daubentonioidea [Chiromys] [GillJ 

 " Quadrumana [Boddaert]. 

 " Anthropomorpha [cf. Ray, Linn.]. 

 Order Toxodontia [Owen]. 



Suborder Typotheria [Zittel ?]. 

 Barytheria [Cope ?]. 

 Order Proboscidea [Illiger]. 

 " Amblypoda [Cope]. 



Suborder Taligrada [Cope]. 

 " Pantodonta [Cope]. 

 " Dinocerata [Marsh]. 

 Order Diplarthra [Cope]. 



Suborder Perissodactyla [Owen]. 

 " Artiodactyla [Owen]. 



WEBER, 1904. 



'Die Siiugetiere/ pp. ix-xi. 



The most important features of this classification are as follows: (1) 

 The division of the Insectivora into two suborders for which Haeckel's 

 terms are employed; (2) the elevation of the Galeopithecidse to separate 

 ordinal rank-; (3) the breaking up of the Edentata into entirely independent 

 orders; (4) the recognition of the ordinal independence of many of the 

 ungulate groups, and of the "Prosimise" and "Simise." All these features 

 indicate that the classifier has endeavored to recognize and discount the 

 misleading effects of parallel and convergent evolution, which in all early 

 classifications caused animals of widely different derivation to be grouped in 

 the same order. 



' In edition of 1898. 



- Following Leche. 



