after Jucha 1957), in a fragmentary outcrop on the NE pit wall of 

 a brick-yard still being worked. The shales occur in the top of the 

 pit as a thin layer extending well over 1.5 m in length. They are of 

 a light-brown color, distinctly laminated, calcareous, turning white 

 under weathering. No important differences can be observed under 

 the macroscope. Both the vertical and horizontal distribution of 

 the fish remains occurring abundantly is on the whole uniform. 



Field investigations at Sobniow, subsidized by the Institute of 

 Paleozoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, were car- 

 ried on throughout 1956 and 1958. Some 250 specimens were collected — 

 sufficiently well preserved to permit systematic studies — together 

 with a few plant remains. 



Several other specimens from the same fossilifer'ous locality have 

 been kindly presented to the Paleozoological Laboratory of the Wro- 

 claw University by Dr. St. Kadyi of Jaslo, Mr. Kozinski — a teacher 

 at the Primary School of Sobniow, and Stanislaw Jucha of the Academy 

 of Mining and Metallurgy of Cracow. 



Fig. 1. Outcrop of the Krosno Beds with the Jaslo Shales in the village Sobniow. 

 (according to Jucha, 1957, p. 524) 1 — landslide, 2 — soil, 3 — Jaslo shale, 4 — 



sandstone, 5 — gray shale. 



All the 263 specimens, obtained from the outcrop at Sobniow were 

 registered as a single collection, labeled with the symbol Os. and con- 

 secutively numbered. 



Cordial thanks are due from the writer to: Professor R. Kozlow- 

 ski, Head of the Institute of Paleozoology of the Polish Academy of 

 Sciences in Warsaw, for help in obtaining the grant which facilitated 

 the writer's study of fishes from the Carpathian Flysch; to Professor 

 Zb. Ryziewicz, Head of the Paleozoological Laboratory of Wroclaw 

 University, under whose general guidance the present work was com- 

 pleted; to Decent VI. Kalabis of the Masaryk University in Brno for 



