Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . IDiE. 335 (v.) Eddcrton, near Tain, 715. Small group of typical scales. Egerton Coll. (vi.) Orkney 3286. Fish with imperfectly preserved head, wanting the pectoralfins ; Belyacreugh. Enniskillen Coll. P. 3286 a. Imperfect remains of trunk and pelvic fins; Ramna Gio. Enniskillen Coll. P. 703. Imperfect trunk and median fins; Belyacreugh. Egerton Coll. The following specimens pertain either to large individuals ofthis species or to H. paucidens:— P. 537. Portion of mandible associated with large sc
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . IDiE. 335 (v.) Eddcrton, near Tain, 715. Small group of typical scales. Egerton Coll. (vi.) Orkney 3286. Fish with imperfectly preserved head, wanting the pectoralfins ; Belyacreugh. Enniskillen Coll. P. 3286 a. Imperfect remains of trunk and pelvic fins; Ramna Gio. Enniskillen Coll. P. 703. Imperfect trunk and median fins; Belyacreugh. Egerton Coll. The following specimens pertain either to large individuals ofthis species or to H. paucidens:— P. 537. Portion of mandible associated with large scales, describedand figured by Agassiz, op. cit. pi. xx. figs. 2, 3; LethenBar. Egerton Coll. 30875, P. 713. Large head associated with similar scales, in counter-part; Lethen Bar. The specimen is vertically crushedand much broken, thus not exhibiting the precise outlinesof any of the elements. The infraclavicular bones of thepectoral arch are seen posteriorly. Purchased, 1855, and Egerton Coll. 49178. Imperfectly preserved fish, about 0*5 in length, in counter-Fig. Holoptychius (Glyptolepis) lepiopteriis, Ag.—Base of second dorsal fin.[No. 49178. 336 CROSSOPTEETGII. part; Lethcn Bar. The fins are almost destroyed, butthe supporting elements of the second dorsal are distinct,and are seen to consist of a single, club-shaped proximalbone, with about six transversely-jointed bars forming adistal series, as shown in the accompanying woodcut(fig. 50). Purchased, 1878. P. 736, P. 3291. Small group of scales, in counterpart, labelledGlyptolepis leptopterus by Agassiz ; Lethen Bar. Egerton Sf Ennishillen Colls. Holoptychius (Glyptolepis) quebecensis, Whiteaves. 1881. Glyptolepis microlepidotus, J. F. Whiteaves (wow Agassiz), Cana-dian Nat. n. s. vol. x. p. 32. 1889. Glyptolepis quebecensis, J. F. Whiteavee, Trans. -Roy. , vol. vi. sect. iv. p. 77, pi. v. fig. 4. 1890. Glyptolepis quebecensis, R. H. Traquair, Geol. Mag. [3] vol. 16. Type. Nearly complete fish ;
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