98 
ACTINOPTERYGII. 
p. 196, pi. xliii., pi. xliv. figs. 1-4, and Proc. Am 01 - ^ ^ 
Soc. vol. xii. (1872), p. 335. Saurocephalus t?,ann '^ 
E. D. Cope, Proe. Amer. Phil. Soc. vol. xi. (1871)) P- 
a =Xiphactinus audax” A. Stewart, Kansas Univ- n ^ 
[A] vol. vii. (1898), p. 119.— Upper Cretaceous (Hw ^ 
Group); Smoky Hill, Kansas. [Jaws, & c - i ^°P C 
lection.] 
Fragments of jaws of large species of Portheus from the Tur ^ ^ 
of Saxony and Bohemia are also described under the nan ^ 
Hypsodon Uwesiensis, Ag., by H. B. Geinitz, Palseontogr. ' ° ' 
pt. ii. (1875), p. 222, pi. xlii. (in part), and A. Fritsch, B e P ‘ 
Fische bcihm. Kreideform. (1878), p. 40, pi. vi. 0 ri <T ' n ' 
The names Portheus angulatus and Portheus gladius '' v< ^ ( jp{. 
ally given by Cope to fragments of Protospliyrcena ( see a 
pp. 413, 414). 
Genus SPATHQDACTYLUS, Pictet. 
[Foss. Terrain Neocoin. Yoirons (Paleonb. Suisse), 185>-) 
pt. iii. p. 2.] 
Trunk robust and moderately elongated, but laterally cotni . 
Teeth hollow, in deep sockets, not compressed to a “^arP 
uuuuw, in ueep socsets, not eompresseu ™ - uniform 
those of the maxilla, as also those of the dentary, nearby p e ing 
in size. Vertebra approximately 60 in number, about " ^jgi 
abdominal ; the centra exhibiting two deep, longitudinally al , ( l 
pits on each side; ribs comparatively stout, each fiat ^ ^gli- 
impressed with a longitudinal groove. ,of 
expanded rays, the length of the pectoral rays not exceedi t0 
the head with opercular apparatus ; dorsal fin 
the anal, which is much extended and is elevated into P 
in front ; caudal fin deeply forked. Scales smooth. 
Spathodactylus neocomiensis, Pictet. ^ oc0 ni. 
1858. Spathodactylus neocomiensis, F. J. Pictet, Foss. ^ er 
Voirons (Payout. Suisse), pt. iii. p. % pi 8 * *•> | u> ]*. 
1882. Spathodactylus neocomiensis, F. Bassani, Ben ~ 
W ias., math.-naturw. Cl. vol. xlv. p. 247. 
Fype. Nearly complete fish ; Geneva Museum. ni etrC ’' 
The type species, attaining a length of abo« ^ 0 f tb<-' 
Maximum depth of trunk somewhat exceeding the ^ or0 th® 1 ' 
head with opercular apparatus, and contained rat e ^ p a se 0 
three times in the length from the pectoral arch 
