166 FOSSIL FISHES OF THE ENGLISH CHALK. 
the middle. Scales ornamented with reticulating ruge and punctations, and 
occupying only the anterior half of the trunk in advance of the median fins. 
Type Species.—Celodus saturnus (Heckel, loc. cit., 1856, p. 207, pls. in, iv), 
known by anearly complete fish from the Lower Cretaceous of Goriansk, Istria. 
Remarks.—Though found sometimes also in the Upper Jurassic, this is a 
typically Cretaceous genus. Many nearly complete skeletons are known,’ but 
only jaws have hitherto been discovered in the English Chalk. 
1. Coelodus parallelus (Dixon). Text-figure 46. 
1850. Pycnodus parallelus, F. Dixon, Geol. Sussex, p. 369, pl. xxxiii, fig. 3. 
1888. Ccelodus parallelus, A. S. Woodward, Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. x, p. 308. 
Type.—Imperfect splenial dentition ; Brighton Museum. 
Specific Characters—A large species known only by the splenial dentition. 
Teeth of principal series on the splenial bone smooth, somewhat more than three 
we. = — ——— 
Fia. 46. Celodus parallelus (Dixon); right splenial Fie. 47. Celodus fimbriatus, A. S. Woodward; right 
dentition, nat. size—Chalk: Southeram, Lewes. splenial dentition, nat. size.—Zone of Holaster sub- 
After Dixon. globosus ; Halling, Kent. Wetherell Collection 
(B. M. no. 43090). 
times as broad as;long; those of the inner flanking series considerably more than 
half as broad as the latter. 
Horizon and Locality. —A Turonian zone: Southeram, near Lewes. 
2. Celodus fimbriatus, A. S. Woodward. ‘Text-figure 47. 
1893. Celodus fimbriatus, A. S. Woodward, Geol. Mag. [3], vol. x, p. 491, pl. xvii, fig.26. 
Type.—Right splenial dentition ; British Museum. 
! Tn addition to the references given in Catal. Foss. Fishes B. M., pt. ii, see also C. Gorganovic- 
Kramberger, Djela Jugoslav. Acad., vol. xvi, 1895, p. 19. 
