Archive image from page 133 of A description of the fossil. A description of the fossil fish remains of the Cretaceous, Eocene and Miocene formations of New Jersey descriptionoffos00fowl Year: 1911 io8 CRETACEOUS AND TERTIARY FISH. ured in this connection, though I have been unable to locate their true identity. Many are, no1 doubt, selachians, though many may also belong to teleosts. They are all from Cretaceous beds, but are without stratigraphical position, like most all of the older col- Fig. 60.—Myliobatis spine? Vincentown (Bryan). 5 <S5T M 7 Fig. 6i.—Teleost otoliths. 1-3, Haddon
Archive image from page 133 of A description of the fossil. A description of the fossil fish remains of the Cretaceous, Eocene and Miocene formations of New Jersey descriptionoffos00fowl Year: 1911 io8 CRETACEOUS AND TERTIARY FISH. ured in this connection, though I have been unable to locate their true identity. Many are, no1 doubt, selachians, though many may also belong to teleosts. They are all from Cretaceous beds, but are without stratigraphical position, like most all of the older col- Fig. 60.—Myliobatis spine? Vincentown (Bryan). 5 <S5T M 7 Fig. 6i.—Teleost otoliths. 1-3, Haddonfield; 4-8, Mt. Laurel (Woolman). L 3 Fig. 62.—Rays from a batoid fish? Vincentown (Bryan). lections. There is also a spine, possibly of Myliobatis (Fig. 60), and several teleost otoliths (Fig. 61). Several small, thin, rod-like fossils may also belong to rays (Fig. 62). Sub-Class HOLOCEPHALI. THE CHIMERAS. Teeth united to form bony plates. Jaws coalescent with skull. Gill-openings single in each side of pharynx, leading to four gill- slits. Skull without system of membrane bones, as opercles, suborbitals, etc. Skeleton cartilaginous. Mandibular suspens- orium wanting. Intestine with a spiral valve. Derivative radii sessile in sides of basal bones of limbs. Pectoral fins normally
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