OXIPTERUS—OXYMYCTERUS. 491 
Oxipterus. (See Oxypterus.) Cete, Physeteridze. 
Oxyacodon EanrE, 1895. Creodonta, i 
Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., VII, 9, 25, fig. 6, Mar. 5, 1895; Marrnew, ibid., 
IX, 292, 1897. 
Type: Oxyacodon apiculatus Earle, from the Puerco beds of the San Juan Basin, 
northwestern New Mexico. 
Extinct. Based on a fragment of a lower jaw with the last premolar and three 
molars. 
Oxyacodon: 60s, sharp; d?» point; ó0cv —080v«, tooth—in allusion to the 
lower molars. 
Oxyzena Corr, 1874. Creodonta, Oxyeenidee. 
Rept. Vert. Fossils New Mexico, 11-13, Nov. 28, 1874; Ann. Rept. Chief of 
Engineers, U. S. A., App. F F 3, pp. 599-601,-1874; Hay, Cat. Foss. Vert. N. 
Am., Bull. 179, U. S. Geol. Surv., 756, 1902 (type fixed). 
Species, 3: Ovyacna lupina Cope (type), O. morsitans Cope, and O. forcipata Cope, 
from the Eocene of New Mexico. 
Extinct. 
Oxyxna: 62Us, sharp; +--azva, a feminine ending—after model of hyzena. (See 
also Pachyzna. ) 
Oxysenodon Marruew, 1899. Creodonta, Oxyzenide. 
[Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., XII, 49, Apr. 8, 1899—nomen nudum, but 
. with reference to figured specimen. | 
WonTMAN, ibid., XII, 145-146, fig. 3, June 21, 1899. 
Type: Oxyenodon dysodus Matthew, from the Eocene of the Uinta Basin, north- 
eastern Utah. 
Extinct. Based on ‘an unusually perfect half of a skull.’ 
Oxyenodon; Oxyena: ó6cv—080/vs, tooth. 

Oxyclenus Corr, 1884. Creodonta, Oxyelzenidee. 
Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., XXI, No. 114, pp. 312-313, 324, Jan. 17, 1884; Marruew, 
Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., 1X, 276, Nov. 16, 1897 (type fixed). 
Species, 3: Mioclenus cuspidatus Cope (type), M. corrugatus Cope, and M. ferox 
Cope, all from the Puerco Eocene of New Mexico. 
Extinct. 
Oxyclenus: 6€0s, sharp; -+ ( Mio-)clenus. 
Oxygomphius Meyer, 1846. Marsupialia, Didelphyide. 
Neues Jahrbuch Mineralogie, 1846, 474; Bronn, Handb. Gesch. Natur, IV, Index 
Paleont., p. 888, 1848; Pome, Archiv. Sci. Phys. et Nat. Genéve, IX, 163, 
Oct., 1848. 
Type: Ovygomphius frequens Meyer, from the Miocene of Germany. 
Extinct. 
Oxygomphius: 620s, sharp; youdios, molar—in allusion to the sharp-pointed 
lower molars. 
Oxygoiis (subgenus of Canis) Hopason, 1841. Ferze, Canidee. 
Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist., II, No. VI, 213, July, 1841; Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 
X, pt. 1r, No. 119, p. 908, July-Dec., 1841. 
Type: Oxygoiis indicus ( — Canis aureus indicus Hodgson), from Nepal, India. 
Name antedated by Vulpicanis Blainville, 1837. 
Oxygoiis: 60y oos, shrill-wailing—in allusion to the characteristic long, wailing 
howl or ery. 
Oxymycterus (subgenus of Mus) Warernousr, 1837. Glires, Murid:e, Cricetine. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 21, Noy. 21, 1837. 
Oxymicterus Tomes, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1861, 285 (raised to generic rank). 
Type: Mus ( Oxymycterus) nasutus Waterhouse, from Maldonado, Uruguay. 
Oxymycterus: 620s, sharp; 4vkr?)p, nose—from the long, pointed nose. 
