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Connochaetes (subgenus of Antilope) LicgrENSTEIN, 1814. Ungulata, Bovide. 
Mag. Gesellsch. Naturforsch. Freunde, Berlin, VI, 152, 165-166, 1814; ScLarer & 
Tuomas, Book of Antelopes, I, pt. 1, 93-94, pls. x1-x11, Jan., 1895. 
Connochetes Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. xxvi, 1843; Cat. Mamm. 
Brit. Mus., pt. itt, Ungulata, 119, 1852. 
Connochxtes ScLATER, List Anim. Zool. Soc. I.ondon, 8th ed., 150, 1883; 9th ed., 
150, 1896. 
Connochetes Cours, Century Dict., 1200, 1891. 
Type: Antilope gnu Gmelin, from Africa. 
Connochztes: KOvvos, beard; yaity, mane—in allusion to the conspicuous beard 
and mane. 
Conodonictis AwEaniNo, 1891. Marsupialia, Borhyzenidee. 
Nuevos Restos Mamít. Fés. Patagonia Austral, 28-29, Aug., 1891; Revista Argen- 
tina Hist. Nat., I, entr. 5a, 314-315, Oct. 1, 1891. 
Conodictis ''RouEssART, Cat. Mamm., new ed., fasc. v, 1212, Nov., 1898. 
Species: Conodonictis saevus Ameghino, and C. exterminator Ameghino, from the 
Lower Eocene of southern Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Conodictis: K®vos, cone; óó v = óóovs, tooth; Z«rzc, weasel. 
Conodontes LauGcEL, 1862. Glires, Castoridz. 
Bull. Soc. Géol. France, 2° sér., XIX, feuille 45, pp. 715-717, fig. 3, Sept., 1862. 
Type: Conodontes boisvilletti Laugel, from the Pliocene of St. Prest, near Chartres, 
Dépt. Eure-et-Loire, France. 
Extinct. Based on a skull and a fourth metatarsal bone. 
Conodontes: K®vos, cone; ddo0vs, óBórros, tooth— pour rappeler la forme de 
la dernicre molaire."  (LavcEr.) 
Conodus Gervais, 1869. Glires, Castoridz. 
Zool. et Paléont. Gén., 1* sér., pl. xv, 1867-69 ( Conodontes in text, pp. 80-84). 
Type: Conodus (— Conodontes) boisvilletti Laugel, from St. Prest, near Chartres, 
Dépt. Eure-et-Loire, France. Apparently merely a modification of Cono- 
dontes Laugel, 1862. 
Name preoccupied by Conodus Agassiz, 1843, a genus of Pisces. 
Extinct. 
Conodus: K@vos, cone; óó os, tooth—in allusion to the last molar. 
Conoryctes Corr, 1881. Edentata, Ganodonta, Conoryctidze. 
Am. Naturalist, X V, for Oct., 829, Sept. 22, 1881; ‘‘Paleont. Bull., No. 33, pp. 486- 
487, Sept. 30, 1881’’; Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., XIX, 486-487, Oct. 21, 1881. 
Type: Conoryctes comma Cope, from the Puerco Eocene of New Mexico. 
Extinct. Based on ‘‘a mandibular ramus which lacks the last molar, and has 
the crowns of the others worn." 
Conoryctes: «vos, cone; ópOkr175s, digger—from the conic crowns of the canines 
and the first two premolars, and the supposition that the animal ‘‘ was prob- 
ably a burrower.”’ 
Conoyces (subgenus of Macropus) Lesson, 1842. Marsupialia, Macropodide. 
Nouv. Tableau Régne Animal, Mamm., 194, 1842; Tuomas, Cat. Marsup. & 
Monotrem. Brit. Mus., 86, 1888 (in synonymy). 
Type: Macropus brunii Lesson ( —M. mülleri Schlegel, 1866), from New Guinea. 
Contracavia Burmerstrr, 1885. Glires, Caviidze. 
Anal. Mus. Nac., Buenos Aires (III), entr. xtv, 158-159, pl. ri, fig. 6, Dec., 1885. 
Type: Contracavia matercula Burmeister, from the Tertiary of Paraná, Argentina. 
Extinct. Based on ‘‘dos porciones anteriores del paladar, con las dos primeras 
muelas en el uno y una sola en el otro." 
Contracavia: Lat. contra, opposite, contrary to; + Cavia—in allusion to **una inver- 
sión de la figura de los dos prismas de sus muelas.”’ 
