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daring fossilisation, and they cannot be satisfactorily distinguished 
from Clu'pea humilis :— 
36180. Specimen about 0’09 in length, much distorted anteriorly ; 
Unterkirchberg. Purchased, 1861. 
36580-81. Large and small specimen, still more distorted; IJnter- 
kirchberg. Purchased, 1862. 
P. 1872, P. 3839. Two typical examples evidently deepened by 
crushing ; Unterkirchberg. Egerton EnnisTciTlen Colls. 
Clupea crenata (Heckel). — - , 
1850. Meletta crenata, J. J. Heckel, Denkschr. k. Akad. Wiss., 
natmw. CL voL i. p. 2-33, pi. xxvi. ^ 
1850. Meletta longimana, J. J. Heckel, ibid. p. 231, pi. xxv. [Imperfect ^ f 
fish ; olim Heinrich Collection, Briinn.] ' 
1870. Meletta sahleri, H. E. Saiivage, Bull. Soc. Geol. France, [2] 
Yol. xxvii. p. 407, pi. ix. fig. 4. 
1870. Meletta parisoti, H. E. Saiivage, ibid. p. 403, pi. ix. fig. 6, pi. x. 
1870. Meletta longimana, H. E. Saiivage, ibid. p. 408, pi. ix. fig. 5. 
1880. Meletta crenata, D. G. Kramberger, Jahrb. k.-k. geol. Beichs- 
anst. vol. XXX. p. 568, pi. viii. fig. 2. 
1880. Meletta longimana = Meletta crenata, F. Bassani, Atti Soc. 
Veneto-Trent. Sci. Nat. vol. vii. p. 81. 
1881. Meletta liecheli, A. Bzehak, Abh. naturf. Yerein. Briinn, vol. xix. 
pp. 70, 72, pi. i. figs. 1-3, 5. [Nearly complete fishes ; Bzehak 
Collection, Briinn]. /-e j A/.^'s*— 
1881. Meletta sahleri =? Melettina, A. Bzehak, ihid. p. 71. 
f . 337. 
Type. Scales, &:c.; olim Zeuschner Collection, Cracow. 
An imperfectly known small species of slender proportions. 
Head with opercular apparatus occupying about one third the length 
of the fish to the base of the caudal fin. Yertebrae 40 to 42 in total 
number, the centra delicate. Pelvic fins slightly behind origin of 
dorsal, which comprises 15 or 16 raj^s and arises in advance of the 
middle of the back ; anal fin low and extended. 
Form. Loc. Lower Miocene (or Oligocene) : Austria, Germany, 
and Prance, 
P, 7041. Five imperfect specimens : Septarien Then, Florsheim, 
Bhein Hessen. Purchased, 1893. 
Clupea xiumidica (Sauvage). 
1839-44. Alosa elongata, L. Agassiz {non Bennett, 1830), Poiss. Foss. ^ 
vol. V. pt. ii. p. 113, pi. Ixiv. [Imperfect fish.] tU*.^ 
73. Alosa crassa, H. E. Sauvage, Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. iv. art. no. 1, 
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