AIPICHTHYS. 3 



SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTIONS. 



Siihcluss TELEOSTOMI. 



Order AGTINOPTEB YGIL 



Suborder AC ANTIlOYTEnYGII. 



Famihj Carangid.e. 



Genus AIPICHTHYS, Steindaclmer. 



AipicMliys, F. SteindacLuer, Sitzuugsb. k. Akad. Wiss., math.-uaturw. CI., vol. xxxviii, 1859, p. 763. 



Generic Cltaraders. — Trunk much deepened, and head short and deep, with a 

 hirge supraoccipital crest. Eye rather small ; cleft of mouth oblique and wide, the 



Fig. 1. Aipichthys velifer, A. S. Woodward; restoration of skeleton, without scales, about nat. size. — 

 Upper Cretaceous ; Hakel, Mt. Lebanon. 



gape extending to the hinder l:)order of the orbit ; maxilla expanded behind ; teeth 

 minute but numerous. Pelvic fins inserted directly l^elow the })ectorals, somewhat 



