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ACTINOPTERYGII. 
Cl. vol. xxxviii. (1860), p. 776, pi. ii.—Upper Miocene ; 
Uadoboj, Croatia. [Imperfect fish; Court Museum, 
Vienna.] 
Genus PALIMPHYES^ Agassiz. 
[Poiss. Foss. vol. V. pt. i. 1844, p. 46.] 
As Scomber, but caudal pedicle stouter, pectoral fins relatively 
large, and vertebrae slightly more numerous. 
Palimphyes elongatus (Blainville). 
1765. Figure by G. W. Knorr, Samml. Merckwiirdigk. Natur, pt. i. 
pi. xxi. fig. 1. 
1818. Clupea elongata, H. D. de Blainville, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. 
vol. xxvii. p. 315. 
1835-44. Palimphyes longus, L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. vol. v. pt. i. p. 46, 
pi. xix. 
1835-44. Palimphyes brevis, L. Agassiz, ibid. p. 47, pi. xx., pi. xxi. 
figs. 1, 2. [Distorted fish ; British Museum.] 
1843-44. Palimphyes latus, L. Agassiz, ibid. p. 48, pi. xxviii. fig. 1. 
[Distorted fish ; Geological Museum, Ziirich.] 
1847-48. Palimphyes gracilis, C. G. Giebel, Neues Jahrb. 1847, p. 667, 
and Fauna d. Vorw., Fische, p. 70. [Distorted fish; Geological 
Museum, University of Halle.] 
1847-48. Palimphyes crassus, C. G. Giebel, ibid. p. 666, and ibid. 
p. 71. [Ditto.] 
1886. Palimphyes glaronensis, A. Wettstein, Fischfauna Tertiaer. 
Glarnerschief. (Denkschr. schweiz. Palaeont. Ges. vol. xiii.), p. 88, 
pi. ii. figs. 1-6. [Distorted fish; Geological Museum, Ziirich.] 
Type. Distorted fish ; Geological Museum, Zurich. 
The type species, attaining a length of about 0*4. Proportions 
uncertain, but length of head with opercular apparatus equalling 
about half that of the vertebral column. Vertebrae 16 in the 
abdominal, 22 in the caudal region. Pectoral fins, when adpressed, 
reaching the beginning of the caudal region; anterior dorsal fin 
consisting of 10 spines ; posterior dorsal and anal fins with about 
20 articulated rays, of which an uncertain number are detached 
finlets. 
Nearly all the known specimens of this species are much distorted, 
and it seems probable that Wettstein is correct in proposing the 
synonymy given above. 
Form. Log. Oligocene: Canton Glarus, Switzerland. 
P. 1994, P. 4128-29. Three imperfect specimens apparently elon- 
