498 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Palsehoplophorus—Continued. 
Palzohoplophorus Roger, Bericht Naturwiss. Ver. Schwaben u. Neuburg (a. V.), 
Augsburg, XXIX, 21, 1887; X XXII, 103, 1896. 
Type: Palzhoplophorus scalabrinii Ameghino ( — Glyptodon ? antiquus Ameghino), 
from the barrancas del Paraná, Entre Rios, Argentina. 
Extinct. Based on scutes. 
Palshoplophorus: maXards, ancient; -+-Hoplophorus. 
Paleictops MarrTHEW, 1899. Insectivora, Leptictidee. 
3ull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., XII, 31, 35, Apr. 8, 1899. 
Type: Stypolophus biscuspis Cope, from the Eocene (Wasatch and Wind River) of 
Wyoming. 
Extinct. 
Palieictops: z«Àa16s, ancient; + Ictops. 
Palzobalena SEkLEv, 1864. Cete, Baleenidee. 
** Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., I, 228, 1864 (name only)" (fide Woopwarp & SHER- 
BORN, Cat. Brit. Foss. Vert., 371, 1890). 
Type: Palwobalena sedgwicki Seeley, from the boulder clay at Ely, near Cam- 
bridge, England. Apparently first published only as a nomen nudum; when 
the genus and species were described in the following year, 1865, the name 
was changed to Palsxocetus sedgwicki. (See Palzocetus). 
Extinct. 
Palxobaleena: zac, ancient; --Balena. 
Palaeobalaena Moreno, 1892. Cete, Baleenidee. 
[‘‘ Patagonia, Resto de un Continente sumergido, Buenos Aires, 26, 1882" 
(nomen nudum); fide Moreno, in] Revista Mus. La Plata, III, 394, 1892; 
AMEGHINO, Mamif. Fós. Repüb. Argentina, 888, 1889. 
Type: Palaeobalaena bergi Moreno. Based on remains found in 1874 in the Santa 
Cruz beds at ‘ Misioneros,’ Patagonia. ‘‘Sin elementos para extraerlos, sólo 
obtuvimos un trozo de roca que contiene parte de los cóndilos occipitales y 
primeras vértebras cervicales, objeto que senalé en 1878, con el nombre Palaeo- 
balaena bergi, y el que aun no hemos descripto, permaneciendo todavía en su 
durísimo cemento." (Moreno, l. c., 1892.) 
Name not preoccupied by Palzxobalena Seeley, 1864 which is a nomen nudum. 
Extinct. 
Palaeobassaris Pau von WünrTEMBERG, 1848. Ferve, Viverridee. 
Bronn’s Handb. Gesch. Natur, IV, Index Palseont., 892, 893. 1848; Picrer, 
Traité Paléont., 2° éd., I, 215, 1853. 
Type: Palacobassaris steinheimensis Paul von Württemberg, from Steinheim, Wurt- 
temberg, Germany. Given as a synonym of Palaeomephitis steinheimensis Jáger, 
1839. 
Extinct. 
Name not preoccupied by *Palaeobassaris Blainville, 1818’ a genus of Pisces, as 
stated by Scudder ( Nomenclator Zool., 244, 1882), Blainville’s genus (1. c.) 
being Palaeobalistum. 
Palaeobassaris: zaAa160c, ancient; + Bassaris. 
Palaeocardia Amrcuino, 1902. Glires, Eocardidee. 
Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Córdoba, XVII, 117-118, May, 1902 (sep. pp. 49-50). 
Type: Palaeocardia mater Ameghino, from the Colpodon beds of Patagonia 
Extinct. Based on an incomplete mandible. 
Palaeocardia: z«Ào10$, ancient; + Eocardia. 
Paleocastor Lrrpy, 1869. Glires, Castoridee. 
Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2d-ser., VII, 338-341, 406, pl. xxv1, figs. 7-11, 1869. 
Type: Steneofiber nebrascensis Leidy, from the Oligocene of the Bad Lands of White 
River, South Dakota. 
Extinct. 
Palxocastor: z «Aoc, ancient; + Castor. 
