SUB-CLASS I 



SELACHII 



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arched, without lateral denticles, and longitudinally keeled ; all superficially 



marked by reticulating ridges. Notochord persistent. Head spines as in 



Hyhodus and Acroclus. Dorsal fin spines marked 



by stellate tubercles, sometimes partly fused 



into longitudinal ribs ; also bearing a median 



longitudinal double series of tubercles on their 



hinder face. Middle and Upper Jurassic. A. 



ornatissimus, Ag. (Strophodus reticulakos, Ag.), 



(Fig. 54), well known from Corallian, Oxfordian, 



and Kimmeridgian of Europe. 



Falaeospinaz, Egerton. Dentition compara- 

 tively specialised ; the few anterior teeth high- 

 crowned and prehensile, with a single pair of 

 lateral denticles ; posterior teeth low-crowned, 

 with two or three pairs of lateral denticles 

 reduced to minute beads. Vertebrae very 

 slightly asterospondylic. Dorsal fin spines 

 smooth and enamelled, without posterior 

 denticles. Shagreen fine and dense ; no head 

 spines. P. priscus, Egert., known by nearly 

 complete specimens from Lower Lias, Lyme 

 Eegis. Fragments of other species from Upper 

 Lias, Wiirtemberg. 



Tooth of Asteracanthus (Strvpliodus retimdatus, 

 Ag.), inside view and upper view. Corallian 

 Tonnere, Yonne. 



Fig. 53. 



Asteracanthus ortuitissimus, Ag. Dorsal 

 fln-spine, lateral view (A), posterior view 

 (B), and detached tubercle enlarged {€). 

 Portlandian ; .Soleure. Switzerland. 



Si/nechodus, Smith Woodward (Fig. 55). Almost identical with Falaeo- 

 spinax, but teeth with more numerous lateral denticles, and vertebrae more 

 distinctly asterospondylic. Complete jaw of S. diibrisiensis, Mackie sp. (Fig. 

 55), and greater part of skeleton of same species known from the Lower 

 Chalk of England. Teeth of other species from various Cretaceous formations 

 in Europe, Cretaceo-Tertiary of New Zealand and Patagonia, and one (S. clarki, 

 Eastman) from the Maryland Eocene. 



Cestracion, Cuv. (Heferodontus, Blainv. ; JJrepanephorus, Egert.), (Figs. 56, 

 57). Symphysial teeth small, numerous and prehensile, with a median cusp 

 and one pair of lateral denticles ; lateral teeth in oblique series, with faintly 

 keeled and finely rugose crown. Vertebrae asterospondylic. Dorsal fin 



