548 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Plesiesthonyx Lemoine, 1891. Creodonta, Arctocyonide. 
Bull. Soc. Géol. de France, 3° sér., XIX, No. 5, p. 276, pl. x figs. 31-32, May, 1891. 
Type: Plesiesthonyx munieri Lemoine, from the lower Eocene near Reims, 
France. 
Extinct. Based on ‘la molaire supérieure . . . et les molaires inférieures. 
Plesiesthonyx: zÀ12)610c, near; -+-Esthonyx—in allusion to the resemblance of the 
lower molars to those of Esthonyx. 
Plesiocetopsis (subgenus of Cetotherium) BRANDrT, 1873. Cete, Baleenide. 
Mém Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, X X, 143-148, 1873. 
Species, 5: Cetotherium hupschii Van Beneden, C. brevifrons Van Beneden, C. du- 
biwn Van Beneden, €. burtinii Van Beneden, and C. gervaisii Van Beneden, 
from the Pliocene of Belgium and France. 
Extinct. 
Plesiocetopsis: Plesiocetus; ows, appearance. 
Plesiocetus VAN BENEDEN, 1859. Cete, Baleenide. 
Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. de Belgique, 2° sér., VIII, No. 11, pp. 139-141, 1859; 
XXXIV, 15, 1872. 
Pesiocetus (‘Grrvats’) C. O. WATERHOUSE, Index Zool., 279, 1902 (misprint). 
Species, 3: Plesiocetus hupschii Van Beneden, P. burtinii Van Beneden, and P. 
garopii Van Beneden, from the Pliocene of Saint-Nicholas, near Antwerp, 
Belgium. 
Extinct. 
Plesiocetus: mAn6ios, near; «?jroc, whale. 
Plesiocyon ScnLossEn, 1887. Fer:z, Canide. 
ScuLossER, in Roger's Verzeichniss Foss. Süugeth., Bericht Naturwiss. Ver. 
Augsburg, X XIX, 132, 1887; ScuLosszn, Beitr. UE Oesterr. Uns und 
des Orients, VII, 341-342, 1888 (sep. pp. 117-118). 
Type: Plesiocyon typicus Schlosser (— Cynodictis dubius Filhol), from the Quercy 
Phosphorites, France. 
Extinct. 
Plesiocyon: zÀ56tos, near; x«ocr, dog. 
Plesiodimylus GAILLARD, 1897. Insectivora, Dimylide. 
Comptes Rendus, Paris, CX XIV, No. 22, pp. 1248-1250, June, 1897. 
Type: Plesiodimylus chantrei Gaillard, from the middle Miocene of Grive-Saint- 
Alban, Dépt. Isére, France. 
Extinct. Based on numerous isolated teeth, portions of upper and lower jaws, 
and especially on the anterior portions of three crania. 
Plesiodimylus: wAnoios, near; + Dimylus. 
Plesiofelis Rorn, 1903. Marsupialia, (‘Sparassodonta’). 
Revista Mus. La Plata, XI, 154-155, 1903. 
Species: Plesiofelis schlosseri Roth, and P. cretaceus Roth, from the upper ‘ Creta- 
ceous’ of Lago Musters, Territory of Chubut, Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Plesiofelis: mAno6tos, near; + Felis. 
Plesiogale Pome, 1847. Fer», Mustelidee. 
Bull. Soc. Géol. de France, 2° sér., IV, feuilles 20-25, p. 380, pl. 4, fig. 3, Apr., 
1847; Cat. Méth. Vert. p fest ds la Loire, 48-49, 1854. 
Type: Plesiogale angustifrons Pomel, from the Miocene of Langy, |’ Allier, France. 
Extinct. 
Plesiogale: mAnoios, near; yaar, weasel. 
Plesiomeryx Gervais, 1878. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Anoplotheriidee. 
Journ. de Zool., Paris, IT, 369, 1873. 
Plesiomeryx GERv Ais, Zool. et Paléont. Gén., II, 45, 1876. 
Type: Plesiomxryx cadurcensis Gervais, from the Phosphorites of Quercy, France. 
