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19830. Imperfect spine ; Lower Chalk, Dover. Purchased, 
47921. Short broad spine ; Chalk, Maidstone. 
Presented hy the Hon. Eohert Marsham, 1877. 
P. 325. Three fragments ; Chalk, Hart Hill, Charing, Kent. 
Harris Coll. 
49736. Imperfect large spine, with four vertebrae ; Upper Chalk, 
Guildford. Capron CoU. 
4041, 4080, 4084-5, 4103. Five examples described and figured by 
Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. vol. iii. (1837), p. 62, pi. x.6. figs. 8, 
10-14, under the name of Spinax major ; L’^pper Chalk, 
Lewes. Mantell Coll. 
P. 1294. Nearly complete arched spine; Chalk, Sussex. 
Egerton Coll. 
48949. Small narrow spine, incomplete; U. Chadk, Norwich. 
Bayfield CoU. 
48949 a. Narrow spine, not much curved, worn or broken at the 
• extremity ; Upper Chalk, Norwich. Bayfield Coll. 
P. 4921. Large much-curved spine, associated with a series of thirty 
vertebrae ; Chalk, Sussex. Purchased, 1885. 
Similar dorsal fin-spines have also been described and figured 
from the Cretaceous of Saxony (H. B. Geinitz, Charact. Schicht. 
u. Petrefakt. Siichs. Kreidegeb., Nachtr. 1843, p. 5, pi. iv. fig. 4 ; 
also Palaeontogr. vol. xx. pt. ii. p. 211, pi. xl. figs. 36-38); but 
the so-called Spina.v maryinatus and S. rotundatus, A. E. Bcuss 
(Verstein. bohm. Kreideform. pt. i. 1845, p. 8, pi. iv. figs. 10, 11, 
13, 14), from the Turonian of Bohemia, are Teleostean teeth. 
The following imperfect series of vertebrae may also perhaps be 
referable to Synechodus or Cestracion : — 
4110. Series of about forty much-broken vertebrae, referred to Spinax 
major by Agassiz, tom. cit. pi. xl. a. fig. 6 ; Chalk, Lewes. 
Mantell Coll. 
38114. Chain of small vertebrae, with traces of cartilage and sha- 
green ; Lower Chalk, Dover. Purchased, 1864. 
48079. Series of much larger broken vertebrae, with remains of the 
• head, pectoral arch, aind pelvic arch, with claspers ; Lower 
CKalk, Dover. Gardner Coll. 
P. 4326. Short chain of vertebrae ; Lower Chalk, Kent. 
Enniskillen Coll. 
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