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fins about as deep as long, nearly equal in size, the former opposed 
to the space between the pelvic fins aud the latter; caudal fin 
considerably forked. Scales delicate, longer than deep, none en¬ 
larged or thickened except a single ridge-scale at the base of the 
caudal fin above and below. 
Dactylopogon grandis^ W. von der March. 
1868. Dactylopogon grandis, AV. von der Marck, Palseontogr. vol. xv. 
p. 279, pi. xli. fig. 1. 
Tyjpe. I*7early complete fish ; Academy of Miinster. 
The type species, attaining a length of about 0*4. Length of 
head with opercular apparatus about equal to the maximum depth 
of the trunk and contained nearly three and a half times in the 
length from the pectoral arch to the base of the caudal fin. 
Pectoral fin-rays about 15 in number, the length of the foremost at 
least twice that of the cranium ; pelvic fins with 1 undivided and 
6 divided rays, inserted nearer to the anal than to the pectorals ; 
dorsal with 6 gradually lengthening undivided rays followed by 
18 divided rays, arising slightly in advance of the middle point 
between the occiput and the caudal fin ; anal arising o^^posite the 
termination of the dorsal, with 5 gradually lengthening undivided 
rays followed b}’ 19 divided rays. Some scales faintly crimped 
towards the hinder border. 
Form. <^' Log. Upper Cretaceous: Sendenhorst, Westphalia. 
Xot represented in the Collection. 
An indeterminable fragment, probably not of this genus, has 
been described as follows :— 
Dactylo]yogon imrvulus., D. G. Kramberger, Djela Jugoslav, Akad. 
vol. xvi (1895), p. 41, pi. vii. fig. 3.—Upper Cretaceous; 
Mt. Lebanon. [Middle portion of small trunk ; Trieste 
Museum.] - . 
Genus BJBMATOK’OTUS, A. S. Woodward, 
[Ann. Mag. Xat, Hist. (7) vol. iv. 1899, p. 318.] 
Head large, trunk short and robust. Mandibular suspensorium 
nearly vertical; jaws delicate and maxilla apparehtly not expanded 
behind ; teeth minute. A'ertebree about 30 in number, half being 
caudal; the centra at least as long as deep, with a few prominent 
longitudinal ridges ; ribs moderately robust. Pectoral fins small, 
