LEPTOLEPIDJE. 
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37055, 37071, 37892-93, 37895, 37897-98. Fry probably for the 
most part of this species ; Solenhofen. Hdberlein Coll. 
P. 928-29, P. 932. Similar fry, some with incompletely formed 
vertebral centra ; Kelheim and Solenhofen. 
Egerton Coll. 
P. 3669-70. Three similar specimens ; Kelheim and Solenhofen. 
Enniskillen Coll. 
Leptolepis brodiei, Agassiz. 
1845. Leptolepis brodiei, L. Agassiz, in P. B. Brodie, Foss. Insects, 
p. 15, pi. i. figs. 1, 3. 
1850. Sarginites pygmceus, O. G. Costa, Atti Accad. Pontan. vol. v. 
p. 285, pi. vi. figs. 6-8. [Imperfect fishes; Geological Museum, 
University of Naples.] 
1850. Megastoma apenninum, O. G. Costa, ibid. p. 287, pi. vi. figs. 9, 10. 
[Ditto.] 
1853. Sarginites'pygmceus, O. G. Costa, loc. cit. vol. vii. p. 7, pi. i. 
fig. 4. 
1853. Megastoma apenninum , O. G. Costa, ibid. p. 8, ph i. fig. 3. 
1879. Leptolepis neocomiensis,T. Bassani, Verhandl. k. k. geol. Beichs- 
anst. p. 164. [Imperfect fish ; Imperial Geological Survey 
Museum, Vienna.] 
1882. Leptolepis neocomiensis, F. Bassani, Denkschr. k. Akad. Wiss., 
math.-naturw. Cl. vol. xlv. p. 204, pi. ii. figs. 1-5. 
1895. Leptolepis brodiei, A.. S. Woodward, Geol. Mag. [4] vol. ii. p. 150, 
pi. vii. figs. 5, 6. 
Type. Imperfect fish ; collection of Bev. P. B. Brodie. 
A small species attaining a length of about O05. Length of 
head with opercular apparatus exceeding the maximum depth of the 
trunk and contained about four times in the total length of the 
fish; width of caudal pedicle exceeding half the maximum depth 
of the abdominal region. Vertebrae about 40 in number, the centra 
robust and as deep as long, the neural and haemal spines in the 
caudal region straight and gently inclined. Pelvic fins arising 
about midway between the anal and pectoral fins, opposite to the 
origin of the dorsal, which has 12 rays ; anal fin with about 7 rays, 
arising much nearer to the caudal than to the pelvic fins. 
Form, Loc. Lower Purbeckian : Vale of Wardour, Wiltshire. 
Upper Jurassic : Naples. Cretaceous: Istria and Dalmatia. 
P. 3675-a. Contorted fish, and a very small specimen with remark¬ 
ably large head; Lower Purbeck, Vale of Wardour. 
Enniskillen Coll. 
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