MEMOIRS 



OF THE 



CAENEGIE MUSEUM. 



Vol. VI. No. 5. 



CATALOG OF THE FOSSIL FISHES IN THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 



PART II. SUPPLEMENT TO THE CATALOG OF FISHES FROM THE 

 UPPER EOCENE OF MONTE BOLCA. 



By C. R. Eastman. 



(Plates XLIII-XLVIIA). 



When, in the spring of the year 1910, a systematic investigation of the fossil 

 fishes in the Carnegie Museum was undertaken by the present writer on the in- 

 itiative of the Director, Dr. W. J. Holland, attention was first directed to the 

 remarkably fine series of specimens from the Upper Eocene of Monte Bolca, near 

 Verona, in northern Italy. What was then supposed to be the entire suite of 

 material belonging to the Museum passed through the writer's hands, for the 

 purpose of being identified, labeled, cataloged, and in part exhibited. This done, 

 an account of the collection of Bolca fishes, illustrated by a number of plates, was 

 published in the Fourth Volume of the Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum.^ 



Subsequently it was fortunately discovered that the paleichthyological 

 resources of the Museum were greater than had been supposed. The discovery 

 was made by Mr. 0. A. Peterson, who in re-arranging a large quantity of paleonto- 

 logical material in storage, came across a case of fossils marked " Bayet Collection." 

 This box was found to contain a number of unusually well preserved specimens of 

 fishes from Monte Bolca, some of them having already served the purpose of illus- 

 trating the Veronese fauna in an earlier publication, and therefore ranking as 

 hypotypes.' It can be confidently affirmed without exaggeration that in point 



' "Catalog of Fossil Fishes in the Carnegie Museum, Part 1. Fishes from the Upper Eocene of 

 Monte Bolca." Memoirs Carnegie Museum, Vol. IV, 1911, No. 7. 



^ Three suchon^nalexemplsiTs, nsimely, Amphistiumparadoxum, Ephippus rhombeus, a,nd Rhombus 

 minimus, were figured by A. B. Massalongo in his Memoir entitled Specimen Photographicum Animalium 

 quorundam Plantarumque Fossilium Agri Veronensis, etc., Verona, 1859. 



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