AUG 9 1915 



MEMOIES 



OF THE 



CAENEGIE MUSEUM. 



Vol. VI. No. 7. 



CATALOG OF THE FOSSIL FISHES IN THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 



By C. R. Eastman. 



Part IV. Descriptive Catalog of Fossil Fishes from the Lithographic 



Stone of Solenhofen, Bavaria.* 



(Plates LVII-LXXIII.) 



The present paper deals with the fossil fishes from Solenhofen, and is princi- 

 pally based upon the fine collection of these acquired through the generosity of 

 Mr. Andrew Carnegie in 1903, when the paleontological treasures amassed by 

 Baron Bayet were purchased for the Museum. The Bayet Collection, by far 

 the largest and most important assemblage of Mesozoic fishes from European 

 localities to be found in any institution on this side of the Atlantic, compares 

 favorably with many of the best known European collections from the same 

 locality. A splendid suite of specimens illustrating the ichthyic and reptilian 

 fauna of the Solenhofen deposits is to be seen on exhibition in the Hall of Fossil 

 Vertebrates, where it constitutes an imposing display. 



* In July, 1913, Dr. C. R. Eastman submitted to the Director a manuscript upon the Fossil 

 Fishes from Solenhofen contained in the Carnegie Museum. For reasons, which it is not necessary here 

 to state, various delaj's occurred in the preparation of the manuscript for pubhcation and of the plates 

 which accompany it. The present paper cannot be accepted as a perfect catalog of the fossil fishes from 

 Solenhofen contained in the Carnegie Museum, but because it embodies some valuable information and 

 tends to throw new light upon the subject the Editor gives it to the public. W. J. Holland. 



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