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TELEOSTOMES 



viva] (Palaeozoic-Mesozoic) have made it the most widely 

 known of fossil fishes. Of all extinct Ganoids there 



Fig. 162. — Aspidorhynchus acutirostris,Aga.ss\z. X |. (After ZlTTEL.) Jura, 

 Solenhofen. 



appears to attach to Palaeoniscus the greatest morphological 

 interest ; on the one hand, it seems closely akin to the 



Fig. 16-^. — Microdot! wagneri, Thiolli^re. X \. (From ZiTTEL, after Thiol- 

 LIERE.) Jura, Cerin. 



