DINOCERAS—DINOMYS. DAS) 
Dinoceras—Continued. 
Extinet. Based on askull without lower jaws, cervical and lumbar vertebree, 
ribs, pelvis, limb bones, etc. 
Dinoceras: Servos, terrible; «£o«sc, horn—in allusion to the extraordinary pro- 
tuberances of the skull, representing three pairs of horn cores. 
Dinocherus GrocER, 1841. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suidee. 
Hand-u. Hilfsbuch Naturgesch., I, pp. xxxii, 131, 1841; THomas, Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist., 6th ser., XV, 191, 193, Feb. 1, 1895. 
Type: Aper xthiopicus Pallas, from southern Africa. (See Phaco-choerus Cuvier, 
1817.) 
Dinocherus: 8e1vóc, terrible; xyozpos, hog—probably in allusion to its general 
aspect, and especially in reference to the tusks. 
Dinocynops AwEaGniNo, 1898. Ferz, Canide. 
Sin. Geol.-Pal., in Segundo Censo Nacional, Rep. Argentina, I, 194, fig. 61, 1898. 
Type: Canis moreni Lydekker, from the Pleistocene (Upper Pampean) of the 
city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
Extinct. ‘Tipo el cranio figurado por Lydekker bajo el nombre de Canis 
moreni." (AMEGHINO. ) 
Dinocynops: dévv 0s, terrible; «ocv, xkvvós, dog; Ow, aspect. 
Dinocyon Jourpan, 1861. Fer, Canidee, Amphicyonine. 
Comptes Rendus, Paris, LIII, No. 22, pp. 962-963, July—Dec., 1861; Ann. Sci. 
Nat., Paris, 4° sér., XVI, Zool No. 6, pp. 372-374, 1861; Bevud Soc. Savantes, 
Paris; I, 128-129, 1862. 
Dynocion JoURDAN, Revue Soc. Savantes, Paris, I, 126, 1862. 
Type: Dinocyon thenardi Jourdan, from the Miocene of the vicinity of La Grive- 
Saint-Alban, near Bourgoin, Département d'Isére, France. 
Extinct. Based on ‘une mandibule inférieure and other fragments. 
Dinocyon: Servos, terrible, powerful; «ócv, dog—apparently in allusion to its 
size. ''Notre chien fossile devait éógaler par la taille les plus grands Ours 
connus." (JOURDAN. ) 
Dinocyon (subgenus of Canis) GrppeL, 1866. Fer:e, Canid:e, Canine. 
Zeitschr. Gesammt. Naturwiss., Berlin, XXVII, 374—375, Mar.—Apr., 1866. 
Type: Canis primevus Hodgson, from Nepal, India. 
Name preoccupied by Dinocyon Jourdan, 1861, a genus of Amphicyoninze. (See 
Cuon, Hodgson, 1838; and Primevus Hodgson, 1842.) 
Extinet. 
Dinolemur Firnor, 1895. Primates, Lemurid:ze. 
Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, No. 1, p. 12, Feb., 1895; Carus, Zool. Anzeiger, 
XVIII, No. 480, p. 240, July 22, 1895. 
Type: Dinolemur grevei Filhol, from Bélo, Madagascar. 
LExtinct. Based on a BORNE and the lower part of a femur. 
Dinolemur: ó£1vós, terrible, powerful; -- Lemur—in allusion to the probable large 
size of the animal. 
Dinomys Perers, 1873. Glires, Dinomyid:e. 
Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 1873, 551-552; [Abdruck aus der] 
Festschrift zur Feier des hundertjührigen Bestehens der Gesellschaft Natur- 
forsch. Freunde, Berlin, 273 [1-10], Taf. r-tv, 187: 
Type: Dinomys branickii Peters, from. Amable A Montana de Vitoc, in the 
Andes of Peru. 
Dinomys: Servos, terrible, ;owerful; “0s, mouse—probably from its size, which 
is about that of a pac: 
