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Pholidophorus micronyx, Agassiz, j 
[Plate XIII. fig. 3.] 
1838-44. Pholidophorus micronyx , L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. vol. ii. pt. i. 
p. 279, pi. xlii. fig. 1. 
1838-44. Pholidophorus intermedins , L. Agassiz (ex Munster, MS.), 
idid. p. 279, pi. xlii. fig. 3. [Imperfect small fish ; Palaeontological 
Museum, Munich.] 
(P) 1861. Caturus brevis, T. C. Winkler, Descript. Poiss. Foss. Solen- 
hofen (Natuurk. Verhandl. Holland. Maatsch. [2] vol. xiv.), p. 63, 
fig. 11. [Imperfect fish ; Teyler Museum, Haarlem.] 
1863. Pholidophorus micronyx, A. Wagner, Abh. k. bay. Akad. Yviss., 
math.-phys. Cl. vol. ix. p, 666. 
1881. Pholidophorus micronyx, B. Vetter, Mittheil. k, mineral.-geol. 
Mus. Dresden, pt. iv. pp. 62, 110. 
1887. Pholidophorus micronyx, K. A. von Zittel, Handb. Palseont. 
vol. iii. p. 215, tig. 228. 
Type. Imperfect fish : Palseontological Museum, Munich, and 
Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge. 
A species as yet imperfectly distinguished from P. ornatus, appar¬ 
ently only differing from the latter in its smaller size and somewhat 
more slender form of the trunk. 
Form. Sf Loc. Lower Kimmeridgian (Lithographic Stone): Bavaria. 
P. 1071. Fish about 0*115 in length, imperfect anteriorly and 
wanting the greater part of the dorsal and anal fins ; 
Helheim. The maxilla is not much arched, while both 
this, the facial and opercular bones are nearly smooth. 
The anterior pelvic fin-rays are broad afid flattened, 
with a fringe of conspicuous fulcra (shown of three times 
the natural size in PI. XIII. fig. 3 b). About five rows 
of scales on the flank are deeper than broad, and some of 
those at the beginning of the caudal region are shown of 
three times the natural size in PI. XIII. fig. 3 a. In the 
hinder half of the caudal region the lateral line forms 
a very prominent ridge. The enlarged scale at the base 
of the upper caudal lobe is pointed in front, obtuse behind, 
and finely ornamented with striae of gauoine radiating 
from the longitudinal middle line. Egerton Coll. 
P. 1078, P. 3600. More imperfect specimen, in counterpart, showing- 
inner face of squamation, and separate pleurocentra and 
hypdcentra in the axial skeleton, also delicate shout ribs; 
Kelheim, Egerton Sf Enniskillen Colls. 
