514 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Paralces ALLEN, 1902. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervide. 
Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., XVI, 160, July 1, 1902. 
New name for Alees Gray, 1821, based on the moose, which was supposed to be 
preoccupied by Alce Blumenbach, 1799, based on the extinct Irish elk. In 
reality Alce was first used for the moose, by Frisch, in 1775. 
Paralees: wapa, near; + Alces. 
Parameles (see Perameles). : Marsupialia, Peramelidee. 
Parameryx Marsn, 1877. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Camelidee. 
Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 3d ser., XIV, No. 83, p. 364, Nov., 1877 (definition 
said to be insufficient); XLVIII, No. 285, p. 269, Sept., 1894; Proc. Am. 
Assoc. Ady. Sci., 26th meeting, Nashville, 242, 1877 (sep. p. 39, Aug., 1877). 
Type: Purameryx levis Marsh (1894), from the Eocene of the Uinta Basin, Utah. 
Extinct. 
Parameryx: mapa, beside, near; 49pv$, ruminant. 
Paramylodon Brown, 1903. Edentata, Megatheriide. 
Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., XIX, 569-583, pls. r, rr, Oct. 28, 1903. 
Type: Paramylodon nebrascensis Brown, from the Pleistocene near Hay Spring, 
Nebraska. 
Extinct. Based on ‘‘a nearly perfect skull and lower jaw . . . with associated 
skeletal material." 
Paramylodon: mapa, beside, near; -- Mylodon. 
Paramys Lripy, 1871. Glires, Ischyromyide. 
' Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Nov. 28, 1871, 230-231; Extinct Vert. Fauna Western 
Terr., 109,1873. 
Species, 3: Paramys delicatus Leidy, P. delicatior Leidy, and P. delicatissimus Leidy, 
from the Eocene near Fort Bridger, Wyoming. 
IExtincet. 
Paramys: mapa, beside, near; 20s, mouse. 
Paranomys (ScaAraBRIiNI MS.) AmeGHINo, 1889. Glires, Octodontide. 
AMEGHINO, Cont. Conocimiento Mamif. Fósil. Repüb. Argentina, in Act. Acad. 
Nac. Cien., Cordoba, VI, Supl., 901, 1889. 
Type: Paranomys typicus Scalabrini MS., from the barrancas in the vicinity of 
Paraná, Argentina. ‘‘La mandíbula . . . estaba clasificada por el profesor 
Scalabrini como representando un nuevo género, para el que había adoptado 
el nombre de Paranomys typicus que hubiera empleado, si ya en la primera 
parte de esta obra no llevara el de Olenopsis." | (AwEGHINO.) 
Extinct. 
Paranomys: Paraná, the type locality; 4/0c, mouse. 
Paraplanops Amrcuino, 1891. ?dentata, Megalonychidee. 
Nuevos Restos Mamif. Fos. Patagonia Austral, 35, Aug., 1891; Revista Argen- 
tina Hist. Nat., I, entr. 5a, 321, Oct. 1, 1891. 
Type: Paraplanops oblongus Ameghino, from the Eocene of southern Patagonia. 
oxtinct. 
Paraplanops; ze, near; + Planops. 
Parapyrotherium AwreaGniNo, 1902. Ungulata, ? Pyrotheriidze. 
Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, VIII (ser. 3, I), 28-29, fig. 21, July 12, 1902. 
Type: Pyrotherium planum. Ameghino, from the Pyrotherium beds of Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Parapyrotherium: map, near; + Pyrotherium. 
Parascalops Truk, 1894. Insectivora, Talpid:e.. 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVII, No. 999, p. 242, Apr. 26, 1894. 
Perascalops BEDDARD, Cambridge Nat. Hist., X, Mamm., 518, 1902. 
Type: &ecleps breweri Bachman, from Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts. 
Parascalops: mapa, beside, near; --Sealops. 
