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[Geology 



Family OSTEOGLOSSIDiE. 

 Genus Phareodus Leidy. 

 (Dapcdoglossus Cope.) 



31. Phareodus sp.f 



In a hard rock belonging to the Chico formation of the upper 

 Cretaceous is a very large cycloid scale, nearly an inch in diame- 

 ter, beautifully striated. It must belong to some of the large 

 Clupeoid fishes, probably to the genus Phareodns, which occurs 

 in the Green River Eocene. 



Family CLUPEID^. 



32. Clupeoid fish. A. 



Fragments of a Clupeoid or herring-like fish, remarkable for 

 the hair-like slenderness of its ribs and other bones, are found in 



Fig. 20. Clupeoid fish (A). No. 32. Miocene of Soledacl Pass. 



the rocks of Soledad Pass. One of these, lacking the head, has 

 forty-five to fifty slender vertebra^, and a forked caudal fin ; the 

 other fins are lost. 



33. Clupeoid fish. B. 



Another herring-like species is found on the Santa Anita 

 Ranch, five miles north of Gaviota. All the specimens from this 

 locality, in a brittle whitish clay shale, are very much broken and 

 unrecognizable. The best preserved is perhaps a species of her- 



