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Among the Eugnathidee he records NeorhomholeRis and Otomitla as having vertebral' 
centra as completely develope>d as those of Amia. 
In view of the distinctiveness of the reptilian fauna of our Lower Cretaceous 
(dealt with by the writer in several papers in these Memoirs), it would not be surprising 
if this large Teleost has no close affinities with species found elsew'here, although the 
writer regrets that he has been unable to consult the full literature of the sid)ject. 
Smith Woodwai'd has j)ointed out (1901, p. IX) ‘‘that stoutness of bones 
indicates a life in shallow water or at the surface of the ocean during the Cretaceous 
period.” 
It is obvious that Flmdersichihys demneadi was well equipped wrth broad 
bands bearing thousands of tiny teeth, and its diet was evidently very distinct from 
that of its contemporaries Portheus and IcMhyodecles, with their large, strong teeth, 
or from that of the slender-snouted Aspidorhynchus and Belonostomus, described from 
the same deposits by Smith Woodward and R. Etheridge. 
R. T. Wade (1930) has given a valuable review of the Fossil Fishes of the 
Australian Mesozoic Rocks, in which the literature of the subject is fully stated. 
Associated Fossils. — Dr. F. W. Whitehousej A\hose j)apers on our ammonite 
fauna are a notable contribution to Australian paheontology, lias made the following 
note regarding the bivalve Aucellina. gryphopoides (J. de 8ow.) : — “ A cosmopolitan 
species with a range of Ujijier Albian to Lower Cenomanian, Avhich has been found 
in Australia only in the Lqiper Albian beds of the 'Tambo Series of the Great Artesian 
Basin and the Point Charles Beds of the Northern Territory.” 
A series of much-abraded vertebrse, tAventy-two in all, received from Mr. Robert 
Poole, Alderley via Hughenden, probably belongs to Flindersichthys denmeadi.- 
(Reg. No. F. 98(>.) 
Ackyiowledgmenis. — It is my pleasant duty to record keen ajipreciation of 
Mr. H. W. Denmead’s action in securing this fossil at Richmond, bringing it to Brisbane 
and presenting it to the. Queenslatid Museum. Tavo text-figures haA^e been drawn by 
Mr. Wilfrid Morden. I must also thank the Director of the Australian Museum 
(Dr. C. Andei'son) for the loan of a publication unobtainable in Brisbane, Mr. L. C. 
Ball, Chief Government Geologist for a volume from the Library of the Queensland 
Geological Survey, and the Queensland University Librarian, Miss E. K. MclA^er, 
for another volume. 
l^LATE X. 
Fia NU lORSTCUTU YH DENMEADI . 
Explanatimi. — has, basals of pectorals ; hr. branehiostegals ; cl, cloitbrum ; d, dentary ; 
eph, epihyal ; gu, gular plate ; hm, liyomaridibular ; iop, interopercular ; ynx, maxilla ; nas, nasal ; 
opc, opercular; orb, orbit; papi, palato-pterygoid arch; pop, preopercular ; por, postorb '.tal ; 
qu, quadrate ; sor, suborbital ; sop, subo])ercular; sph, sphenotit^ ; sq, squamosal ; syyn, symplectic ; 
t‘er, vertebriE ; x, tlisplaced deiitigerous fragment. 
