GADID^. 
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The following generically indeterminable fragments also seem to 
belong to a member of the family Gadidse:— 
P. 625. Imperfect cranium intended by Agassiz to be the type 
specimen of Merlimis cristatus^ but not described; London 
Clay, Sheppey. The name is published in Eep. Brit. 
Assoc. 1844 (1845), p. 308. Egerton Coll, 
P. 1738. Seven imperfect crania and associated remains, one spe¬ 
cimen marked as intended by Agassiz to be the type of 
Rhinocejplialus -planiceps, but not described ; London Clay, 
Sheppey. The name is published loc. cit. p. 294. 
, -v . . . Egerton Coll, 
P. 4513. Seven^^mil^ imperfect specimens; Sheppey. 
Enyiiskillen Coll. 
38909-11, 38944. Pour more satisfactorily preserved similar skulls; 
Sheppey. Bowerhank Coll, 
43106. Small similar skull; Sheppey. Wetherell Coll, 
47985. Pine similar skull; Sheppey. 
Presented hy the Hon. Robert Marsham^ 1877.^ 
P.'9429. Another similar skull; Sheppey. Purchased, 
P. 4920. Pine head; Sheppey. Daivson Coll. 
P. 356 a. Small similar skull; Sheppey. Purchased^ 
41723. Pragment with some anterior vertebrae; Sheppey. 
' Toulmin Smith Coll. 
Otoliths of supposed extinct species of Gadidae have also been 
described as follows :— 
Otolithus {GadidarurYi) acutanguliis, E. Koken, Zeitschr. deutsch. 
geol. Ges. vol. xxxvi. (1884), p. 546, pi. xi. fig. 13.—Lower 
Oligocene; Lattorf. 
Otolithus {CadidarurYi) elevatus.^ E. Koken, loc. cit. vol. xl. (1888), 
p. 290, pi. xviii. figs. 4, 5.—Lower Tertiary; Clayborne, 
Alabama. 
Otolithus {Gadidarum) latisidcatus.^ E. Koken, loc. cit. 1884, 
p. 545, pi. xi. fig. 5. 0. {Raniceps) latisulcatus., E. Koken, 
loc. cit. vol. xliii. (1891), p. 86, pi. iv. fig. 4, pi. iii. fig. 2.— 
Oligocene; Germany. Miocene ; Antwerp. 
Otolithus {Gadidarum) meyeri^ E. Koken, loc. cit. 1888, p. 289, 
pi. xviii. figs. 8, 9.—Lower Tertiary; Jackson Eiver, 
Mississippi. 
