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48072. Head and part of abdominal region of a large specimen, 
displaying the very large tooth at the symphysis of the 
mandible and a smaller tooth further back. Lewis Coll. 
Spaniodon latus (Agassiz). 
1844. Clupea lata, L, Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. vol. v. pt. ii. p. 118, pi. Ixi. 
fig. 10. 
1850. Clupea lata, F. J. Pictet, Poiss. Foss. Mt. Liban, p. 37, pi. vii. 
fig- 1. ^ ^ 
1866. Spaniodon brevis, Pictet & Humbert, Noiiv. Rech. Poiss. Foss. 
Mt. Liban, p. 86, pi. xii. figs. 3, 4. [Imperfect distorted fish ; 
Geneva Museum.] 
1887. Spaniodon brevis, J. W. Davis, Trans. Roy. Dublin Soc. [2] 
vol. iii. p. 592, pi. xxxiv. fig. 1. 
1887. Leivisia ovalis, J. W. Davis, ibid. p. 593, pi. xxxiii. fig. 6. 
[Nearly complete fish; Edinburgh Museum.] 
1899. Spaniodon brevis, A. S. Woodward, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [7] 
vol. iv. p. 319. 
Type. Imperfect distorted fish; olim Alex. Brongniart Collection. 
A somewhat smaller and stouter species than the type, with 
relatively shorter caudal vertebrae and deeper caudal pedicle. 
The total number of vertebrae seems to be about 50, and the length 
of the head with opercular apparatus scarcely exceeds the maximum 
depth of the abdominal region. 
Form. ^ Log. Upper Cretaceous : Sahel Alma, Mount Lebanon. 
P. 7811. Distorted fish, described and figured by J. W. Davis, loc. 
cit. Davis Coll. 
48074. Fine specimen apparently not much distorted, but wanting 
the cranium. The supports of 16 rays are seen in the 
dorsal, 14: in the anal fin. V-shaped intermuscular bones 
occur in the anterior part of the abdominal region just 
below the vertebrae. Lewis Coll. 
46398, 46508, 48515, 47348-49, P. 4787. Six imperfect and dis¬ 
torted specimens apparently of this species. Lewis Coll. 
P. 1879. Three fragments. Egerton Coll. 
The following species has also been described but is not repre¬ 
sented in the Collection ;— 
Spaniodon simus, E. D. Cope, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. Territ. vol. iv. 
(1878) p. 69.—Upper Cretaceous ; Dakota. [Imperfect 
fish ; Cope Collection.] 
