198 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Conacodon— Continued. 
Extinct. 
Conacodon: K@vos, cone; &K1), point; 66@v=6ddo0vs, tooth—in allusion to the 
simple round cusp of the third upper premolar. 
Conaspidotherium Lemoine, 1891. Creodonta, Arctocyonide. 
Bull. Soc. Géol. de France, 3° sér., XIX, No. 5, pp. 265, 268, 275-276, pl. x, fig. 
30, May, 1891. 
Type: Conaspidotherium ameghinoi Lemoine, from the Lower Eocene near Reims, 
France. 
Extinct. Based on 
intact.”’ 
Conaspidotherium: K@vos, cone; + (Pleur)aspidotherium—in allusion to the 
second lower molar which ‘‘est composée essentiellement de deux paires de 
denticules . . . . Il y a done une analogie de forme à reconnaitre entre 
ces trois genres [Conaspidotherium, Pleuraspidotherium et Orthaspidotherium], 
d’ot Je nom que nous avons proposé (LEMOINE). 
Condylura IruiGER, 1811. Insectivora, Talpide. 
Prodromus Syst. Mamm. et Avium, 125-126, 1811; Trun, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
XIX, 77-98, figs. 27-38, Dec. 21, 1896. 
Species: Sorex cristatus Linnzeus (type), from Pennsylvania; and Talpa longicau- 
data Erxleben, from eastern North America. 
Condylura: k«óvóvAos, knob; ovpa, tail. The original description was based on 
the faulty figure of De La Faille, in which the tail isrepresented as constricted 
at intervals resembling a string of beads. (TRug, l. c., p. 78.) 
Conepatus Gnav, 1837. Ferze, Mustelidee. 
Charlesworth’s Mag. Nat. Hist., I, 581, 1837. 
Type: Conepatus humboldtii Gray ( — Mephitis conepatl Desmarest= Viverra conepatl 
Gmelin), from the Straits of Magellan, Patagonia. 
Conepatus: Mexican conepatI—'* probably refers to the burrowing of the ani- 
mal.'* (Cours, Fur-bearing Animals, 249, 1877.) 
Conicodon Corr, 1894. Edentata, Ganodonta, Stylinodontide. 
Am. Naturalist, XXVIII, No. 331, p. 594 footnote, July 13, 1894. 
New name provisionally proposed for Calamodon Cope, 1874. ‘‘A genus of 
birds has been named Calamodus [by Kaup in 1829], a name which is in my 
opinion abundantly distinct from Calamodon. As, however, there are persons 
who, like the American Ornithologists’ Union, will make this resemblance an 
excuse for changing the name, I suggest that they call it. Conicodon, from the 
shape of the molars, as distinguished from those of Stylindon."? 
* une dent . . . sur un maxillaire inférieur, relativement 
Extinct. 
Conicodon: kcvikós, conical; 65@v=6ddovs, tooth. 
Conilurus OaiLpy, 1838. Glires, Muridee, Murinze. 
Trans. Linn. Soc. London, XVIII, for 1838-41, 124-129, 1838. 
Type: Conilurus constructor Ogilby, from New South Wales, Australia. 
Conilurus: kóviAosc, rabbit; obpd, tail—‘‘intended to express the resemblance 
which the animal bears to a small rabbit with a long tail (OcrrBv). 
Coniopternium AwraGniNo, 1895. Ungulata, Litopterna, Macraucheniide. 
Bol. Inst. Geog. Argentino, XV, cuad. 11-12, p. 632, 1895 (sep. p. 32). 
Type: Coniopternium andinum Ameghino, from the Pyrotherium beds in the inte- 
rior of Patagonia. 
Extinct. Based on a calcaneum, three astragali, and some phalanges, all incom- 
plete. 
Coniopternium: kcoriov, little cone; zrepviov, little heel—in allusion to the 
slender form of the caleaneum. 


* ** Nepantla in the Nahuatl language signified a subterranean dwelling."  (Covuss.) 
