LEPIDOTUS. 



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supratemporals and the cheek-plates become more or less irregularly subdivided ; 

 and the wavy median suture between the parietal and frontal bones of the cranial 

 roof becomes nearly straight. 



Fig. 12. 



Fio. 13. 



Fig. 12. — Le2ndotus semiserratus, Agassiz; restoration of head, upper (A) and right side view (B), one- 

 half nat. size.— Upper Lias: Whitby, Yorkshire. 

 Fio. 13. — Lepidotus mantelli, Agassiz ; restoration of head, upper (A) and right side view (B), one- 

 half nat. size. — Wealden : Sussex. 



1. Lepidotus minor, Agassiz. Plate V, figs. G — II; Plate VI; Plate VII, 

 figs. 1 — 5 ; Text-figure 1 k 



1833-37. Lepidotus minor, L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss., vol. ii, pt. i, pp. 9, 260, ]_>!. xx.\iv {nan pi. xxix c, 



fig- 12). 

 1887. Lepidotus minor , W. Brauco, Abb. geol. Specialk. Preussen u. Thiiriug. Staaten, vol. vii, p. 363, 



pi. vi, fig. 2 (? non p. 366, pi. vi, fig. 1). 

 1893. Lepidotus minor, A. S. Woodward, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 562, pi. xlix, fig. 3. 

 1895. Lepidotus minor, A. S. Woodward, Catal. Foss. Fishes, Brit. Mus., pt. iii, p. 94, text-fig. 22. 



Type. — Imperfect fish ; School of Mines, Paris. 



Specific Characters. — A species attaining a length of about 40 cm., but usually 



