Paleologus
an illustrious Byzantine family, first mentioned about 1078, when George Palæologus was a faithful servant of the Emperor Nicephorus III.
He was killed while defending Dyrrhachium, or Durazzo, against the Normans in 1081. The Palæologi, the last Greek family that occupied the throne of Constantinople, reigned from 1260 to 1453. A branch of the Palæologi ruled over Montferrat in Italy from 1305 to the end of 1530.
PALÆOTHERIUM, or PALEOTHE- RIUM, the type-genus of the family Palæotheridæ, resembling the antelope.
It was founded on remains discovered by Cuvier in the quarries of Montmartre, and named by him P. magnum. Several species are known, varying in size from that of a roedeer to that of a tapir.
PALÆOZOIC, or PALEOZOIC, in geology, the term generally applied to the The fore part is called the hard palate and the back part the soft palate, the former having an osseous framework and a membrane provided with many muciparous glands. In botany, the prominent lower lip of a ringent corolla.