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I.—On a Head of Eurycormus from the Kimmeridge Clay of Ely1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. Smith Woodward*
Affiliation:
British Museum (Natural History).

Extract

Little is known of the Upper Jurassic Fish-fauna from discoveries in British Formations; and though considerable information upon the subject has already been acquired, this has been chiefly obtained from the fine Lithographic Stones of Bavaria, Würtemberg, and France. In these deposits, as is well known, fishskeletons are found in an almost complete state, with the bones remarkably well preserved; and the only obstacle to the satisfactory determination of the various elements is the extreme compression to which the fossils have been subjected and the hardness of the matrix in which they are enveloped.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1890

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Footnotes

1

Read before the Geological Society, January 8th, 1890.

References

page 289 note 2 Woodward, Smith, “Preliminary Notes on some New and Little-known British Jurassic Fishes,” Rep. Brit. Assoc, 1889 Google Scholar, and Geol. Mag. [3] Vol. VI. (1889), p. 448 Google Scholar.

page 291 note 1 von Zittel, K. A., “Handbuch der Palaeontologie” (1887), p. 230 Google Scholar, fig. 242

page 292 note 1 Shufeldt, R. W., “The Osteology of Amia calva,” Rep. U.S. Fish Commission, 1883, pp. 747837 Google Scholar, with plates.