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No. 34» Xl7idina striolaris. Ganoid fish of the family of "Coelocanths," or 

 those with hollow bones. 



Lithographic limestone (Upper Oolite): Kelheim, Bavaria. 



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No. 35. Lepidotus mhior.*'^ A 

 fine Ganoid fish, with homo- 

 cereal tail & bright-shining 

 scales. 



Purbeck limestone 



(Upper Oolite): 



Isle of Portland, England. 



No. 36. Pterodactylits 

 crassirostris.*^ Copj 

 of the most perfect 

 specimen of this fos- 

 sil that has ever beem 

 found. 

 Lithographic limestone 

 (Upper Oolite): 

 Solenhofen, Bavaria. 



No. 37. Placodus gigas.*^ Skull entire, 

 with both maxillary and palatal series 

 of teeth. These latter are, relatively, 

 larger than those of any other known 

 animal, living or fossil. No part of the 

 animal, save the head, is known ; but 

 it is believed to have been a marine 

 saurian, which frequented the seashores 

 and fed upon the hard-shelled mollusks, 

 crushing them between its hard rounded 

 teeth. 



Miischclkalk (Middle Triaf?) : 



Laineck. Bavaria. 



