584 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Protopithecus Lunp, 1838. Primates, Cebidz. 
Overs. K. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Forhandl. Kjóbenhavn, 1838, 14; Ann. Sci. 
Nat., Paris, 2° sér., XI, Zool., 230, 234, Apr., 1839; Echo du Monde Savant, 
Paris, 6* Ann., No. 430, 245, Apr. 17, 1839. 
Type: Protopithecus brasiliensis Lund, from the bone caves of the region between 
the Rio das Velhas and Rio Paraopeba, Minas Geraes, Brazil (alt. 2,000 ft. ). 
Extinct. . 
Protopithecus: z Gros, first; zi0«ocs, ape—i. e., the first extinct ape discovered. 
*L'existence de Singes à des époques antérieures à l'ordre de choses actuel 
était un fait encore nouveau pour la science, lorsque je découvris au mois de 
Juillet 1836 les premiers restes fossiles d'un animal de cette famille." (Lunp.) 
Protopithecus Larter, 1851. Primates, Simiidee. 
Notice sur la Colline de Sansan, 11-12, 1851. 
Type: Pithecus antiquus Blainville, from the Miocene of Sansan, Gers, France. 
Name preoccupied by Protopithecus Lund, 1838, a genus of Cebidee. (See Plio- 
pithecus Gervais, 1848-52.) 
Extinct. Based on a lower jaw. 
Protopithecus: zp&ros, first; zi05«os, ape—i. e., a primitive ape. 
Protoproviverra Lemoine, 1891. Creodonta, Proviverridze. 
Bull. Soc. Géol. de France, 3° sér., XIX, No. 5, p. 272, pl. x fig. 10, May, 1891. 
Type: Protoproviverra palxonictides Lemoine, from the lower Eocene near Reims, 
France. 
Extinct. Based on teeth. 
Protoproviverra: z&rosc, first; + Proviverra. 
Protoproviverra AwEaGHINO, 1891. Marsupialia, Borhyzenide. 
Nuevos Restos Mamif. Fos. Patagonia Austral, 26-27, Aug., 1891; Revista 
Argentina Hist. Nat., I, entr. 5a, 312-313, Oct. 1, 1891. 
Species, 3: Protoproviverra manzaniana Ameghino, P. ensidens Ameghino, and 
P. obusta Ameghino, from the lower Eocene of southern Patagonia. 
Name preoccupied by Protoproviverra Lemoine, May, 1891, a genus of Creodonta. 
Replaced by Amphiproviverra Ameghino, 1891. 
Extinet. 
Protopsalis Corr, 1880. Creodonta, Oxyzenide. 
Am. Naturalist, XIV, for Oct., 1880, 745-746, Sept. 20, 1880; Bull. U. S. Geol. & 
Geog. Surv. Terr., VI, 193, 1881; Tert. Vert., 321-323, 709, 1885 (date of publi- 
cation, under Lambdotherium). 
Protopalsis OsBonN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., XIII, 277, fig. 7, 1900. 
Type: Protopsalis tigrinus Cope, from the Eocene ‘bad lands’ of the Big Horn 
River basin, west central Wyoming. 
Extinct. Based on ‘two true molars and a canine of the inferior series with 
bones of the skeleton.’ 
Protopsalis: z&ros, first; wadis, scissors, also a razor—in allusion to one of the 
lower molars ‘‘without internal tubercle, and with rudimental heel, thus 
resembling the inferior sectorial of various existing Carnivora." (Cope. ) 
Protoptychus Scorr, 1895. Glires, Heteromyide. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.. Sept., 1895, 269-286, figs. 1-4. 
Type: Protoptychus hatcheri Scott, from the Uinta Eocene of Utah. 
Extinct. Based on a skull. 
Protoptychus: mp@tos, first; zrv&, wrvyos, fold—in allusion to the invagination 
of the enamel of the upper molars. (Compare Entoptychus. ) 
Protoreodon Scorr & OsBorN, 1887. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Agriochceride. 
Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., XXIV, No. 126, pp. 257-258, 1 fig. in text, Nov. 2, 1887; 
Scorr, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc., new ser., XVI, pt. 111, 487-503, pl. vir figs. 1-8, 
Aug. 20, 1889. 
