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PISCES 



Frontal profile steep. Vomero-palatine with five rows of rounded, bean-shaped 

 teeth, of which the convex crown has a rugose border and mammillated apex ; 

 the middle row larger than the lateral rows. Splenial with four rows of 

 similar teeth ; dentary with three stout prehensile teeth. Caudal fin deeply 

 forked, symmetrical. Common in the Upper Jurassic (Lithographic Stone) of 

 Solenhofen, Eichstadt, Kelheim, Cerin (Ain) ; also in the Kimmeridgian of 

 England, France, and Switzerland, in the Portlandian and Neocornian of 



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Fig. 154. 



Head of Gyrodus macrophihahmis, Ag. 

 (Lithoftraphic Stone); Kclheini, Bavaria. 

 d, Clavicle ; cth, Ethmoid ; fr, Frontal ; md, Mandible ; )«.*, 

 Maxilla ; 0, Orbit ; op, Preoi)erculuni ; pa, Parietal ; pfr. 

 Post-frontal; pnu:, Preniaxilla ; pt. Post - temporals ; sc, 

 Sclerotic ring ; scl, Operculum ; s(j, Squamosal. 



France and Switzerland, and the Tithonian 

 of Sicih\ Some species from the Litho- 

 graphic Stone (G. tifanius, Wagner) attain 

 a length and depth of 1 m. 



Microdon, Ag. (Figs. 158, 159). 

 Hinder half of trunk with very thin 

 scales, which are often wanting. Yomero-palatine slender, with five rows of 

 quadrate, smooth, and flattened teeth ; between the large teeth of the middle 

 row the smaller teeth of the two inner lateral rows are alternately pressed 

 inwards. Splenial with one row of large, obliquely quadrate, smooth teeth, 

 which is flanked inside by one, outside by tAvo rows of smaller teeth. Caudal 

 fin slightly forked, symmetrical. Common in the Upper Jurassic (Lithographic 



Fig. 156. 



Gyrodus titanius, 

 Wagn. Palatal plate 

 with teeth, nat. size. 

 Kelheim. 



Fig. i; 



Gyrodus titanius, 

 Wagn. Bight splenial 

 with four rows of 

 teeth, nat. size. Upper 

 Jura ; Kelheim. 



