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Genus PSEUDOBERYX) Pictet & Humbert. 
[Nouv. Itech. Poiss. Foss. Mt. Liban, 1866, p. 32.] 
Head large, trunk deeply fusiform and laterally compressed. 
Maxilla robust and arcbed, with two large supramaxillary bones ; 
mandible a little prominent, and gape not extending behind the 
middle of the large orbit ; teeth minute. Preoperculum only 
slightly expanded ; operculum and subopcrculum deep and narrow. 
^ ertebraj approximately 30 in number, half being caudal. Paired 
fins small, the pelvic pair inserted opposite the dorsal, which is 
short-based and nearly median ; anal fin smaller than the dorsal ; 
caudal fin deeply forked. Scales pectinated, large and regularly 
arranged, none enlarged or thickened, and no ventral ridge-scales ; 
lateral line conspicuous. 
Pseudoberyx syriacus, Pictet & Humbert. 
1866. Pseudoberyx syriacus, Pictet & Humbert, Nouv. Rech. Poiss, 
Foss. Mt. Liban, p. 33, pi. ii. tigs. 4-6. 
1887. Pseudoberyx syriacus, J. W. Davis, Trans. Roy. Dublin Soc. [2] 
^ v °l- hi- p. 600, pi. xix. tig. 3. 
887. Pseudoberyx bottee, J. W. Davis, ibid. p. 633, pi. xix. fig. 4 
(err ore). 
jype. Nearly complete fish ; Geneva Museum. 
Ihe type species, attaining a length of about 0-08. Length of 
ead with opercular apparatus less than the maximum depth of the 
an d contained twice in the length from the pectoral arch to 
e fi ;l8e °f the caudal fin. Pelvic fins each comprising about 6 
ra }s and inserted opposite the origin of the dorsal, which is about 
as long 
as deep, with 10 or 12 rays, occupying the middle third 
°1 the back ; the small anal fin well behind the dorsal, with 6 
® comparatively short rays. Scales with deep posterior pectina- 
10118 and arranged in about 30 transverse series ; each principal 
transverse series of the flank comprising 8 or 9 scales. 
No undoubted indications of spines have hitherto been observed 
in an y of the fins of this species. 
Form. c$- Loc. Upper Cretaceous : Hakel, Mt. Lebanon. 
8686. Fine large specimen, wanting the end of the snout. 
Purchased, 1897. 
101 . Smaller specimen figured by Davis, loc. cit. pi. xix. fig. 4, 
under the name of Pseudoberyx bottee. Lewis Coll. 
49569. Imperfect remains of large fish. Lewis Coll 
p A.RI IV. 
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