576 



FOSSIL VERTEBRATA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



[BULL. 179. 



MEGATHERIUM Cuvier. Type M. americanum Cuvier. 



Cuvier, <?., 1796, Mag. Encycl., i. (Fide Agassiz.) 

 Adam, W. 1834 A. 

 Agassiz, L. 1862 C. 

 1863 A. 



Ameghino, F. 1886 A, p. 178. 



Blainville, H. M. D. 1839 A, p. 67. 



1839 C, p. 114. 



1864 A, iv, EE, p. 39, pis. i-iv. 

 Bru, D. J. B. 1804 A. 

 Buckland, W. 1837 A, i, p. 112. 

 Burmeister, H. 1866 B, p. 160. 



1870 A, p. 381. 



1873 A. 



1879 B, p. 285. 



Clift, W. 1836 A. 



Cope, E. D. 1889 C, p. 188. 



1889 P, p. 660. 

 Couper, J. H. 1842 A. 

 Cuvier, G., 1798, Table Element., p. 146. 



1804 B, pp. 376-387, pis. xxiv, xxv. 



1834 A, viii, pt. i, pp. 531-570, pi. ccxvii. 

 Daw kins, W. B. 1870 A, p. 233. 

 De Kay, J. E. 1842 C, p. 98. 

 Desor, E. 1852 A, p. 58. 

 Flower, W. H. 1882 A. 



1883 D, p. 385. 



Flower and Lydekker 1891 A, p. 185. 

 Gervais, P. 1839 A. 



1873 A, p. 464. 

 Giebel, C. G. 1847 A, p. 111. 

 Harlan, R. 1825 A, p. 199. 

 Holmes, F. S. 1858 B. 

 Koken, E. 1888 C, p. 5. 

 Leidy J. 1855 B, pp. 49, 59. 

 Lund, P. W. 1841 A, p. 73. 



1842 A. 

 Lydekker R. 1887 A, p. 86. 



1894 A, p. 71. 



1896 B, p. 102. (Megalotherium.) 

 Nicholson and Lydekker 1889 A, p. 1295. 

 Owen, R. 1840 B. 



1840 F, pp. 64, 85. 



1842 D. 



1843 B. 



1845 B, p. 333, pis. Ixxxiii, Ixxxiv. 

 1847 C, p. 66. 



1851 C. 



1852 A. 



1855 B. 



1856 B. 

 1858 C. 



J, p. 402. 

 1868 A, p. 274. 



Pander and d' Alton 1818 A. 

 Pictet, F. J. 1853 A, p. 264, fig. 216, 

 Schmidt, 0. 1886 A, p. 115. 

 Steinmann and Doderlein 1890 A, p. 739. 

 Trouessart, E. L. 1898 A, p. 1108. 

 Woodward, A. S. 1898 B, p. 279. 

 Zittel, K. A. 1893 B, p. 131. 



Megatherium americanum Cuvier. 

 Cuvier, G., 1800, in Shaw's "General Zoology," i, 

 p. 165. 



Ameghino, F. 1889 A, p. 668, pi. xli, fig. 4; pi. 



Ixxxi, figs. 1-3. 

 Blainville, H. M. D. 1864 A. 

 Burmeister, H. 1866 B, p. 150, pi. v. 



1873 A, pi. xi. 



1879 B, p. 321. 



1889 A, p. 27, pi. xi, figs. 7,8. 

 Desmarest, A. G., 1822, Mammalogie, p. 365. (M. 



cuvieri.) 



Flower and Lydekker 1891 A, p. 185, figs. 60-62. 

 Gervais and Ameghino 1880 A, p. 135. 

 Giebel, C. G. 1847 A, p. 111. (M. cuvieri.) 

 Leidy, J. 1877 A, p. 213, pi. xxxiv, figs. 42, 43. 



(With doubt.) 

 Lydekker, R. 1887 A, p. 86. 



1894 A, p. 73, pis. xlv, xlvi. 

 Owen, R. 1840 F, p. 100, pis. xxx-xxxii. 



1851 C. 



1855 B, pis. xxii-xxvii. 



1856 B, pis. xxi-xxvi. 



Quenstedt, F. A. 1852 A, p. 44, pi. iii, fig. 13. 



Reinhardt, J. 1875 A, pi. iv, figs. 6, 7. 



Roger, O. 1896 A, p. 91. 



Trouessart, E. L. 1898 A, p. 1109. 



Zittel, K. A. 1893 B, p. 132, figs. 104, 107, 108. 



This species has been recorded with doubt 



from the phosphate beds of South Carolina. 



The species had previously been known only 



from South America. 



Megatherium mirabile Leidy. 



Leidy, J. 1852 H, p. 117. 



Cooper, W. 1824 A, p. 114, pi. viii. (" Megatheri- 

 um.") 



1828 A, p. 267. (" Megatherium.") 



Cope, E. D. 1889 P, p. 660. 



Couper, J. H. 1842 A, p. 216. 



1846, in Hodson, W. B. 1846 A. 



Cuvier, G. 1834 A, viii, p. 338. (" Megatherium.") 



De Kay, J. E. 1842 C, p. 98. (M. cuvieri.) 



Habersham, J., in Hodson, W. B. 1846 A, p. 25. 

 (M. cuvieri.) 



Harlan, R. 1825 A, p. 200. (M. cuvieri.) 



1834 B, p. 63. (M. cuvieri.) 



1835 B, p. 269. (M. cuvieri.) 



1842 B, p. 143. ("Megatherium.") 



1843 B, p. 70. (Megatherium. ) 

 Hodson, W. B. 1846 A. 



Holmes, F. S. 1849 A, p. 197. ("Megatherium.") 

 Leidy, J. 1854 A, p. 10. 



1855 B, pp. 49, 59, pi. xv. 



1860 B, p. Ill, pi. xx, figs. 8, 8a. 



1869 A, p. 411. 

 Lydekker, R. 1887 A, p. 90. 

 Lyell, C. 1843 B, p. 128. (" Megatherium.") 



1844 A, p. 323. (" Megatherium.") 

 Mitchell, S. L. 1824 A, pi. vi, figs. 12, 13. ("Mega- 

 therium.") 



Roger, 0. 1896 A, p. 92. 

 Trouessart, E. L. 1898 A, p. 1110. 

 T. R. D. 1839 A. ("Megatherium.") 

 Wyman, J. 1856 A. 

 Zittel, K. A. 1893 B, p. 132. 



Pleistocene; Georgia, South Carolina. 



