SYNOPSIS 



OF 



EXTINCT MAMMALIA OF NORTH AMERICA, 



The present synopsis includes the synonymy and references to the principal 

 authorities, but in many cases does not refer to copied notices. Though, mainly a 

 Synopsis of Extinct Mammalia, as expressed in the title, it also includes notices of 

 certain mammals still in existence, but whose remains have been found in association 

 with those of extinct species. 



PRIMATES. 



BIMANA. 

 HOMO. 



Fossil human skeleton from Guadaloupe, Konig: Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, 1814, 107, PI. III. 

 Cuvier : Ossem. Fos. 3d Ed. I, 1825, 66 ; 4tli Ed. I, 1834, 213. A second skeleton from the same 

 formation, Cuvier : Os. Fos. 3d Ed. I, 1825, 67, PI. I ; 4th Ed. 1, 1834, 215, PL I. Portions of the 

 former skeleton, Moultrie and Shepard : Am. Jour. Sc. XXXII, 1837, 361. 



Evidences of the cotemporaneous existence of Man with Mastodon, in Missouri, Koch ; in Philadelphia 

 Presbyterian, Jan. 12, 1839, copied into Am. Jour. Sc. XXXVI, 1839, 199; Mantell's Fossils 

 of the British Museum, 1851, 473; Trans. Ac. Sci. of St. Louis, I, 1856-60, 61. 



Os innominatum of a Man from a stratum of blue clay, below the skeleton of the Megalonyx, etc., from the 

 vicinity of Natchez, Mississippi,Dickeson : Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 1846, 107. 



Skeleton of a Man in an excavation at Neiv Orleans, La., Dowlcr: Tableaux of New Orleans, 1852; 

 quoted by Usher in Nott and Gliddon's Types of Mankind, 1854, 338. 



Jaws, with teeth, and portions of a foot of Man in a conglomerate of rotten coral-reef limestone and shells 

 in a bluff iqwn the shores of Lake Monroe, Florida, Agassiz : Mobile Daily Tribune, April 14, 

 1853 ; quoted by Usher in Nott and Gliddon's Types of Mankind, 1854, 352. 



Evidences of the existence of Man with Mastodon, etc., in the post-pliocene formation in the vicinity of 

 Charleston, S. C, Holmes: Proc. Ac. Nat. Se. 1859, 179; Ibidem 1867, 125. 



