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Upmesodon Kaur & Scporr, 1834. Ungulata, ? 
* Verzeichniss Gypsabgüsse ausgezeichneten urweltlichen Thierresten Gross- 
herzogl. Museum zu Darmstadt, 2te Ausgabe, Darmstadt, 1834’’ (fide Oken’s 
Isis, 1835, 346). 
**Zugleich ist . . . die2te Auflage von dem Catalog der Gy psabgüsse erschienen, 
welche der Hofbildhauer Scholl nach den Originalien zu Darmstadt verferti- 
get... Darunter kommen vor Stücke von Chetis, Agnotherium, Machairodus, 
Palaeomys, . . . Upmesodon." | (Oken's Isis. ) 
Extinct. 
Uranodon IrrrGER, 1811. Cete, Physeteride. 
Prodromus Syst. Mamm. et Avium, 143-144, 1811. 
Type: Delphinus butzkopf Bonnaterre. Practically a new name for Hyperoodon 
Lacépéde, 1804. 
Uranodon: o9p«vós, palate; 65@v = ó60vsc, tooth—in allusion to the papillee 
on the palate erroneously supposed to be teeth. (Compare Hyperoodon. ) 
Uranokyrtus AMEGHINO, 1894. Edentata, Megalonychide. 
Enum. Syn. Mamm. Foss. Form. Éocénes de Patagonie, 159-161, Feb., 1894. 
Type: Uranokyrtus bombifrons Ameghino, from the Eocene of Patagonia. 
Extinct. 
Uranokyrtus: obpavos, palate; «vprós, arched. 
Urigna Rarinesquer, 1815. Ferze, Pinnipedia, Phocide. 
Analyse de la Nature, 60, 1815 (nomen nudum). 
Type: Phoca sp. (‘Urigna R. sp. do.’ [espéce du genre précédent, Phoca]). 
Urmiatherium Ropier, 1888. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Giraffid:e. 
Anzeiger Math.-Nat. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss., Wien, XXV, No. 12 , pp. 114-115, 1888; 
Denkschrift. Math.-Nat. Cl. K. cad Wiss., Wien, LVI, Abth. rr, 315-322, 
Taf. r-rv, 1889. 
Type: Urmiatherium polaki Rodler, from Ilditschi, on the Karangu River, south- 
east of Maragha, north western Persia. 
Extinct. Based on a fragment of the cranium. 
Urmiatherium: Urmia, a city and lake in northwestern Persia, the type locality; 
fnptov, wild beast. 
Urocricetus (subgenus of Cricetus) SATUNIN, 1908. Glires, Muride, Cricetin:e. 
Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, VII, for 1902, No. 4, pp. 573-575, 
Apr. 1, 1903. 
Species, 3: Cricetus longicaudatus Milne-Edwards, from northern China; C. triton 
De Winton, from northern Shantung, China; and Urocricetus kamensis Satunin, 
from the Mok-tschjun River, Mekong district, Kam Land, southeastern 
Tibet. 
Urocricetus: obpa, tail; + Cricetus—in allusion to the long tail, equal to half the 
body length or more. 
Urocryptus TrEwwiNck, 1838-39. Chiroptera, Noctilionidee. 
Temminck, Van der Hoevens, Tijdschr. Nat. Geschied., V, 31-34, pl. 1 figs. 3, 4, 
1838-39; Mon. Mamm., IL 300, 1835-41. 
Type: Urocryptus bilineatus Temminck, from Surinam, Dutch Guiana. 
Urocryptus: op, tail; xpvzrós, hidden—in allusion to the diminutive tail, 6 
lines in length, which does not extend beyond the interfemoral membrane. 
Urocyon (subgenus of Vulpes) Bargp, 1857. Fer:e, Canide. 
Barrp, Mamm. N. Am., 121, 138-145, 1857; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 
1868, 521-522 (raised to generic rank); Minter & Rznw, Proc. Boston Soc. 
Nat. Hist., X XX, 202-204, Dec., 1901 (type fixed). 
Species: Vulpes ( Urocyon) virginianus (Schreber) (= Canis cinereoargenteus Schre- 
ber, type), from the eastern United States; and Vulpes ( Urocyon) littoralis 
Baird, from San Miguel Island, California. 
Urocyon: obpa, tail; «oov, dog—‘ tailed dog’—from the tail, which has **a con- 
cealed mane of stiff hairs, without any soft fur intermixed." (Barrp.) 
