﻿OF 
  THE 
  MORAY 
  FIRTH 
  AREA. 
  

  

  281 
  

  

  yielded 
  only 
  very 
  scanty 
  remains 
  of 
  vertebrated 
  animals. 
  As 
  to 
  

   Reptiles, 
  remains 
  of 
  Ichthyosaunts 
  have 
  been 
  recorded 
  by 
  Professor 
  

   Jndd 
  (22, 
  p. 
  184), 
  from 
  the 
  Upper 
  Oolitic 
  rocks 
  of 
  Eathie, 
  near 
  

   Cromarty, 
  and 
  of 
  Plesiosaurus 
  (ib. 
  p. 
  182) 
  from 
  the 
  Sutherland 
  coast. 
  

   Detached 
  scales 
  and 
  bones 
  of 
  Ganoid 
  fishes 
  are 
  occasionally 
  met 
  

   with, 
  but 
  the 
  only 
  two 
  instances 
  of 
  these 
  being 
  perfect 
  enough 
  for 
  

   determination 
  and 
  description 
  are 
  the 
  following 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Sub-class 
  TELEOSTOMI. 
  

   Order 
  LEPIDOSTEOIDEI. 
  

   Family 
  SEMIONOTIDjE. 
  

  

  Genus 
  SEMIONOTUS. 
  

  

  Semionotus 
  Joassi, 
  A. 
  S. 
  Woodward, 
  1887. 
  

  

  Several 
  specimens, 
  one 
  a 
  nearly 
  perfect 
  fish, 
  were 
  found 
  by 
  the 
  Rev. 
  

   Dr. 
  Joass 
  in 
  a 
  block 
  of 
  carbonaceous 
  shale, 
  believed 
  by 
  him 
  1 
  to 
  

   have 
  been 
  derived 
  from 
  the 
  bed 
  underlying 
  the 
  main 
  seam 
  of 
  

   lignite 
  in 
  Strath 
  Brora.' 
  If 
  so, 
  the 
  fish 
  is 
  of 
  Middle 
  Oolitic 
  age. 
  

  

  Doubts 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  accuracy 
  of 
  the 
  generic 
  reference 
  in 
  this 
  case 
  

   have 
  been 
  expressed 
  by 
  Deecke 
  (Ueber 
  Fische 
  aus 
  verschiedenen 
  

   Horizonten 
  des 
  Trias, 
  Pahwntographica, 
  vol. 
  xxxv. 
  188S, 
  p. 
  103), 
  

   who 
  considers 
  the 
  fish 
  to 
  be 
  more 
  allied 
  to 
  Eugnathus 
  or 
  to 
  

   Platysiugum. 
  1 
  

  

  Family 
  PYCNODONTIDjE. 
  

  

  Genus 
  GYRODUS, 
  Agassiz. 
  

   Gyrodus 
  Goweri, 
  Egerton, 
  1869. 
  

  

  Imperfect 
  fish. 
  Upper 
  Oolite. 
  Culgower, 
  Sutherlandshire. 
  

  

  EXTINCT 
  MAMMALIA 
  OF 
  THE 
  MORAY 
  FIRTH 
  AREA. 
  

  

  After 
  the 
  deposition 
  of 
  the 
  Upper 
  Oolitic 
  beds 
  of 
  the 
  Sutherland 
  

   coast 
  comes 
  another 
  long 
  interval 
  of 
  geological 
  time, 
  extending 
  

   through 
  the 
  Cretaceous 
  and 
  Tertiary 
  epochs 
  to 
  the 
  Postpliocene, 
  and 
  

   for 
  which 
  the 
  Moray 
  area 
  has 
  nothing 
  to 
  show 
  in 
  the 
  way 
  of 
  rock 
  

  

  1 
  Since 
  the 
  above 
  lines 
  havo 
  been 
  in 
  type, 
  I 
  have 
  received 
  Part 
  iii. 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Smith 
  

   Woodward's 
  'Catalogue,' 
  just 
  published. 
  The 
  fish 
  in 
  question 
  he 
  mentions 
  (p. 
  314) 
  

   as 
  1 
  closely 
  resembling 
  Htterolepidotii*, 
  but 
  differing 
  in 
  not 
  having 
  the 
  tail 
  f<»rke«l 
  ': 
  

   stating 
  also 
  that 
  ' 
  its 
  generic 
  position 
  mu«t 
  still 
  be 
  regarded 
  as 
  undetermined.' 
  

  

  