99 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Amblysomus (subg. of Chrysochloris) Pome, 1848. lisectivora, Chrysochloride. 
Archiv. Sci. Phys. et Nat., Genéve, IX, 247, Nov., 1848; GrirL, Bull. U. S. Geol. & 
Geog. Survey Terr., I, 2d ser., No. 2, p. 112, 1875 (raised to genericrank ); Standard 
Nat. History, V, 137, 1884; TnovrssAnr, Revue et Mag. Zool., 3° ser., VII, 
277, 1879; Dopson, Mon. Insectivora, pt. 11, 109, 1885; W. L. ScLATER, Mamm. 
8. ARA II, 168, 1901 (type fixed). : 
No type designated. *'Il y a un sous-type ayant une molaire de moins à chaque 
máchoire, et dépourvu de la bulle osseuse de la tempe qui, chez les autres, fait 
partie de l'oreille interne ainsi soulevée en dedans—Amblysomus.”’ (POMEL. ) 
Type: Chrysochloris hottentotus A. Smith, from Cape Colony (fide ScrATER). 
Name preoccupied by Amblysoma Westwood, 1841, a genus of Hymenoptera. 
(See Calcochloris Mivart, 1867.) 
Amblysomus: &yu SA vs, blunt, dull; 6&j«, body—from its thick, stout form. 
Amblytatus AmeEGuino, 1902. Edentata, Dasypodidee. 
301. Acad. Nac. Ciencias Córdoba, XVII, 57, May, 1902 (sep. p. 55). 
Species: Amblytatus pandus Ameghino, and A. areolatus Ameghino, from the Pyro- 
therium beds of Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Amblytatus: CuPaAvs, blunt, sluggish; tatou, armadillo. 
Ambysus Rarinesqur, 1815. Fer, Pinnipedia, Phocidee. 
Analyse de la Na‘ure, 60, 1815 (nomen nudum ) 
Type: Phoca sp. (‘Ambysus R. sp. do.’ [espéce du renre précédent, Phoca]). 
Ameghinotherium Poprsrí, 1898. Ungula. , Typotheria, Typotheriidz.* 
“Un nuevo fósil. El Ameghinotherium curuzü-cuatiense, 1898, 2 figs.; La Escuela 
Positiva, V, 1-8, 1899; Serrano, Guía Prov. Corrientes, Geol. Curuzti-Cuatia, 
1899"' (fide AMEGHINO, Sinop. Geol.-Palzeont. in Segundo Censo Nac. Repüb. Ar- 
gentina, Supl., July, 1899, sep. p. 9). 
Type: Ameghinotherium curuzu-cuatiense Podestá, from the Tertiary of Curuzüá- 
Cuatia, Corrientes, Argentina. 
Extinct. Based on a skull. 
Ameghinotherium: Ameghino; 67piov, wild beast—in honor of Dr. Florentino 
Ameghino, director of the Museo Nacional, Buenos Aires; author of * Mamíferos 
Fósiles de la Repüblica Argentina,’ 1889, and many other contributions to the 
paleontology of Argentina. 
Ametrida Gray, 1847. Chiroptera, Phyllostomatidee. 
Proe. Zool. Soc. London, 1847, 15; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., XIX, 407, June, 
1847. 
Type: Ametrida centurio Gray, from Para, Brazil. 
Ametrida: @untpis, @untpidos, reaper, destroyer. 
Amilnedwardsia AMEGHINO, 1901. Ungulata, Condylarthra, Meniscotheriidee. 
Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Cérdoba, X VI, 386, July, 1901 (sep. p. 40). 
Type: Amilnedwardsia brevicula Ameghino, from the ‘Cretaceous’ of Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Amilnedwardsia: In honor of Alphonse Milne-Edwards, 1835-1900, late director 
of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris; author of numerous publications 
on mammals, : 
Ammodon Mansu, 1898. Ungulata, pen Suidee. 
Am. Journ. Sci., 3d ser., XLVI, No. 275, 409-410, pl. rx, figs. 2-4, Nov., 1893; 
Hay, Cat. Foss. Vert: N. Am., Pull. 179, U. S. Geol. Surv., 656, 1902 (type 
fixed). 
Species, 3: Hlotherium leidyanum Marsh (type), from the Miocene of Squankum, 
Monmouth County, New Jersey; EF. bathrodon Marsh, from the Oligocene of 
South Dakota; and Ammodon potens Marsh, from Colorado. 


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