. Bulletin of the Department of Geology. Geology. 126 University of California Publications. [Geology Family OSTEOGLOSSIDiE. Genus Phareodus Leidy. (Dapcdoglossus Cope.) 31. Phareodus In a hard rock belonging to the Chico formation of the upper Cretaceous is a very large cycloid scale, nearly an inch in diame- ter, beautifully striated. It must belong to some of the large Clupeoid fishes, probably to the genus Phareodns, which occurs in the Green River Eocene. Family CLUPEID^. 32. Clupeoid fish. A. Fragments of a Clupeoid or herring-like fish, remarkable for the hair-like slenderness of i


. Bulletin of the Department of Geology. Geology. 126 University of California Publications. [Geology Family OSTEOGLOSSIDiE. Genus Phareodus Leidy. (Dapcdoglossus Cope.) 31. Phareodus In a hard rock belonging to the Chico formation of the upper Cretaceous is a very large cycloid scale, nearly an inch in diame- ter, beautifully striated. It must belong to some of the large Clupeoid fishes, probably to the genus Phareodns, which occurs in the Green River Eocene. Family CLUPEID^. 32. Clupeoid fish. A. Fragments of a Clupeoid or herring-like fish, remarkable for the hair-like slenderness of its ribs and other bones, are found in. Fig. 20. Clupeoid fish (A). No. 32. Miocene of Soledacl Pass. the rocks of Soledad Pass. One of these, lacking the head, has forty-five to fifty slender vertebra^, and a forked caudal fin; the other fins are lost. 33. Clupeoid fish. B. Another herring-like species is found on the Santa Anita Ranch, five miles north of Gaviota. All the specimens from this locality, in a brittle whitish clay shale, are very much broken and unrecognizable. The best preserved is perhaps a species of her-. 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 University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Geology. Berkeley : The University Press


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