﻿ASPIDORHYNCHin^. 
  429 
  

  

  (?) 
  1842. 
  Belonostomus 
  angustus, 
  G. 
  von 
  Minister, 
  Neues 
  Jahrb. 
  p. 
  45 
  

  

  (imperfectly 
  denned). 
  [Fish, 
  wanting 
  jaws; 
  Paleeontological 
  

  

  Museum, 
  Munich.] 
  

   1844. 
  Belonostomus 
  spJiyrcenoides, 
  L. 
  Agassiz, 
  Poiss. 
  Foss. 
  vol. 
  ii. 
  pt. 
  ii. 
  

  

  pp. 
  140, 
  297, 
  pi. 
  xlvii. 
  a. 
  fig. 
  5. 
  

   1844. 
  Belonostomus 
  brachysomus, 
  L. 
  Agassiz, 
  ibid. 
  pt. 
  ii. 
  pp. 
  143, 
  297. 
  

   1863. 
  Belonostomus 
  sphyrcenoides, 
  A. 
  Wagner, 
  Abh. 
  k. 
  bay. 
  Akad. 
  

  

  Wiss., 
  math.-phys. 
  CI. 
  vol. 
  ix. 
  p. 
  690. 
  

  

  Type. 
  Xearly 
  complete 
  fish 
  ; 
  Palaeontological 
  Museum, 
  Munich, 
  

   and 
  Woodwardian 
  Museum, 
  Cambridge. 
  

  

  The 
  type 
  species, 
  attaining 
  a 
  length 
  of 
  about 
  0*3. 
  Head 
  with 
  

   opercular 
  apparatus 
  occupying 
  about 
  one-third 
  of 
  the 
  total 
  length 
  ; 
  

   maximum 
  depth 
  of 
  trunk 
  contained 
  twelve 
  times 
  in 
  the 
  total 
  length. 
  

   Cranium 
  about 
  five 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  its 
  maximum 
  depth 
  ; 
  jaws 
  

   equal 
  in 
  length. 
  Vertebras 
  in 
  the 
  form 
  of 
  robust 
  constricted 
  rings, 
  

   scarcely 
  longer 
  than 
  deep. 
  Space 
  between 
  the 
  origin 
  of 
  the 
  pelvic 
  

   fins 
  and 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  anal 
  fin 
  less 
  than 
  the 
  space 
  between 
  the 
  latter 
  

   and 
  the 
  caudal. 
  Scales 
  smooth 
  or 
  very 
  feebly 
  tuberculated 
  ; 
  those 
  

   of 
  the 
  lateral 
  line 
  not 
  much 
  exceeding 
  in 
  depth 
  the 
  series 
  below. 
  

  

  Form. 
  4' 
  Loc. 
  Lower 
  Kimmeridgian 
  : 
  Bavaria. 
  

  

  49129. 
  Plaster 
  cast 
  of 
  type 
  specimen 
  ; 
  Lithographic 
  Stone, 
  Eich- 
  

   stadt. 
  Purchased, 
  1878. 
  

  

  37800. 
  Large 
  imperfectly 
  preserved 
  fish 
  about 
  0*285 
  in 
  length, 
  

   contorted, 
  of 
  the 
  variety 
  named 
  B. 
  brachysomus 
  by 
  

   Agassiz; 
  Solenhofen. 
  Hdberlein 
  Coll. 
  

  

  P. 
  3800. 
  Trunk 
  nearly 
  complete 
  from 
  the 
  pelvic 
  fin 
  backwards, 
  but 
  

   disturbed 
  in 
  front, 
  probably 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  ; 
  Kelheim. 
  

  

  Enniskillen 
  Coll. 
  

  

  P. 
  7576. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  tail 
  with 
  caudal 
  fin, 
  probably 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  ; 
  

   Kelheim. 
  Egerton 
  Coll. 
  

  

  Belonostomus 
  muensteri, 
  Agassiz. 
  

  

  1834. 
  Aspidorhynchus 
  miinsteri, 
  L. 
  Agassiz, 
  Verhandl. 
  Ges. 
  vaterland. 
  

  

  Mus. 
  Bohmen, 
  p. 
  70 
  (name 
  only). 
  

   1837. 
  Belanostomus 
  miinsteri, 
  L. 
  Agassiz, 
  Bericht. 
  Versamml. 
  deutsch. 
  

  

  Naturf., 
  Jena, 
  1836, 
  p. 
  127 
  (name 
  only). 
  

   1844. 
  Belonostomus 
  miinsteri, 
  L. 
  Agassiz, 
  Poiss. 
  Foss. 
  vol. 
  ii. 
  pt. 
  ii. 
  

  

  pp. 
  141, 
  297, 
  pi. 
  xlvii. 
  a. 
  fig. 
  2. 
  

   1848. 
  Belonostomus 
  muensteri, 
  C. 
  G. 
  Giebel, 
  Fauna 
  der 
  Vorwelt, 
  

  

  Fische, 
  p. 
  155. 
  

   1861. 
  Belonostomus 
  miinsteri, 
  T. 
  C. 
  Winkler, 
  Descript. 
  Poiss. 
  Foss. 
  

  

  Solenhofen 
  (Natuurk. 
  Verhandl. 
  Holland. 
  Maatsch. 
  [2] 
  vol. 
  xiv.), 
  

  

  p. 
  34, 
  fig. 
  5. 
  

  

  