SUB-CLASS I 



SELACHII 



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/i^>v 



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fin low, much extended. Skin naked, or ivith shagreen granules. Jurassic to 

 Recent. 



Ischyodus, Egerton (Leptacanthus, Ag. • Auluxacanthus, Sauvage ; Chimaer- 

 acanfhus, Quenstedt), (Fig. 92). Lower dental plates 

 rhomboidal, with a narrow symphysial facette ; upper 

 part of outer face covered with a thick layer of 

 dentine, and oral margin sharp ; four rough punctate 

 tritors present. Posterior upper dental plates tri- 

 angular, tapering in front, with four tritors ; anterior 

 upper teeth square, antero-posteriorly compressed. 

 Dorsal fin spine laterally compressed, smooth or 

 longitudinally striated, with a double longitudinal 

 series of denticles on the hinder face. Males with a 

 short, arched head spine, bearing a cluster of denticles 

 at the end. Nearly complete skeletons of /. avitus, 

 Meyer sp. (Fig. 92), and /. quenstedti, from the 

 Lithographic Stone of Bavaria. Detached teeth 

 from the Bathonian (Stonesfield Slate) to the Upper 

 Cretaceous of England, France, Germany, and Switzer- 

 land ; also from Cretaceous of Amuri Bluff, New 

 Zealand. 



Ganodus, Ag Dentition as in Ischyodus, but 

 posterior upper dental plate deeply excavated 

 behind, with a double longitudinal series of numer- 

 ous small tritors. Bathonian (Stonesfield Slate), 

 England. G. oweni, Ag., and other species. 



Fig. 93. 



Edaphodon sedgvncki, Ag. sp. Teeth, 1/2 nat. size. Lower Chalk ; Lewes. 

 rad, Left mandibular tootli, inner aspect ; p, Left hinder upper tooth, oral 

 aspect ; v, Left anterior upper tooth, inner aspect ; a, Tritors ; sym, Sym- 

 physial border (after E. T. Newton). 



Fig. 9-2. 



Ischyodus avitus, H. v. ^lieyer. 

 Almost complete skeleton, 1/0 

 nat. size. Upper Jurassic 

 (Lithographic Stone) ; Eiclistadt 

 (after H. v. Meyer). 



Pachymylus, Brachymylus, Sm. "VVoodw. Upper Jurassic ; England. 



