THE ANNALS 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SEVENTH SERIES.] 

 No. 28. APRIL 1900. 



XLIV. — Evidence of an Extinct Eel (Urenchelys anglicus, 

 sp. n.) from the English Chalk. By A. Smith Wood- 

 ward, F.L.S. 



[Plate IX. figs. 1, 1 a.] 



Thirteen years ago tlie late Mr. James W. Davis described 

 some imperfect fishes from the Upper Cretaceous of Mount 

 Lebanon which he supposed to represent two extinct species 

 of eels named respectively Anguilla sahel-almce and A. hakel- 

 ensis, in allusion to the localities where the specimens were 

 found*. In 1897 Mr. Raymond Storms pointed out f that 

 the first of these species could not be an Apodal fish of any 

 kind, while the second was so imperfectly described and 

 figured that Davis's generic determination at least was not 

 justified. Quite lately an examination of the original speci- 

 mens in the British Museum has determined their true 

 relationships. It appears that the so-called Anguilla sahel- 

 ahnce is really an extinct member of the Notacanthida, 



* J. W. Davis, '' The Fossil Fishes of the Chalk of Mount Lebanon in 

 Syria," Trans. Rov. Dublin Soc. [2] toI. iii. (1887), pp. 625, 626, pi. xx 

 figs. 2, 3. 



f R. Storms, " Premiere Note sur les Poissons Wemmeliens (Eocene 

 sup«5rieur) de la Beltriqne," Bull. Soc. Beige G^ol. vol. x. (1897), M6m. 

 p. 23!). 



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