. Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) ... Fishes, Fossil. 30 ACTINOPTERTGII. few of these arches are shown of the natural size in PI. I. fig. 4. Egerton Coll. P. 3362. Imperfect head, pectoral arch with fins, and some of the anterior vertebral arches, described and figured by Eger- ton, loc. tit. p. 873, pi. lxix. Th'e portion of axial skeleton behind the head is not accurately drawn, there being only a single series of long slender spines loosely apposed to their more robust neural arches. As remarked by Traquair, the maxilla is interpreted by Egerton as man
. Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) ... Fishes, Fossil. 30 ACTINOPTERTGII. few of these arches are shown of the natural size in PI. I. fig. 4. Egerton Coll. P. 3362. Imperfect head, pectoral arch with fins, and some of the anterior vertebral arches, described and figured by Eger- ton, loc. tit. p. 873, pi. lxix. Th'e portion of axial skeleton behind the head is not accurately drawn, there being only a single series of long slender spines loosely apposed to their more robust neural arches. As remarked by Traquair, the maxilla is interpreted by Egerton as mandible (numbered 32), the palatine (or ectopterygoid) as maxilla (21), the suborbital as premaxilla (22), and the jugal as coalesced mesotympanic and hypotympanic (28 d). Ennishillen , seen obliquely from below (after [No. P. 2048.] Head of Chondrosteus aoi% Traquair). Lettering of figs. 5 and 6:— ac/., angular ; br., branchiostegal rays; cb., cerato-branchial; , cerato-hyal; cl., clavicle ; d., dentary; /., frontal; km., hyomandibular ; , mesopterygoid ; once., maxilla ; op., operculum ; , parasphenoid ; pt., palatine ; , post-frontal; , supraclavicle; , suborbital; , suboperculum; Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology; Woodward, Arthur Smith, 1864-1944. London, Printed by order of the Trustees
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