. A dictionary of the fossils of Pennsylvania and neighboring states named in the reports and catalogues of the survey ... Paleontology. 701 CO Tju Coal age fish with a spine in the back of his head, from a compari- son of 23 ex- amples recently found in France, one of them a complete trunk. Length of young and old from 1| to 3^ feet; skel- eton calcified; no shagreen; each pelvis-fi n provided with a robust clasper; barbed spine pro- jecting from the back of the head holds up a small head-fin; two anal fins, one be- hind the other? each built like true legs, or pad- dle ! Nothing in na
. A dictionary of the fossils of Pennsylvania and neighboring states named in the reports and catalogues of the survey ... Paleontology. 701 CO Tju Coal age fish with a spine in the back of his head, from a compari- son of 23 ex- amples recently found in France, one of them a complete trunk. Length of young and old from 1| to 3^ feet; skel- eton calcified; no shagreen; each pelvis-fi n provided with a robust clasper; barbed spine pro- jecting from the back of the head holds up a small head-fin; two anal fins, one be- hind the other? each built like true legs, or pad- dle ! Nothing in nature as yet known will com- pare with this wonderful struc- ture. See C. Brongniart's de- scription, April, 1888, Paris Mus. Nat. Hist., and Dr. Woodward's figure in Lond. Geol. Mag. Sep. 1888, p. 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 Lesley, J. P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903; Pennsylvania. Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey. Harrisburg, Board of Commissioners for the Geological Survey
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