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I.—On New Species of Pholidophorus from the Purbeck Beds of Dorsetshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

William Davies
William Davies
Affiliation:
British Museum (Natural History).
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Few genera of Fossil Fishes contain so large a number of welldefined species aa Agassiz' widely-distributed and well-known genus Pholidophorus. Above forty species have been more or less fully described by Agassiz and subsequent authors; the geological range extending from the Rhætic to the Purbeck Beds inclusive. The group consists mainly of small or moderate-sized fishes, but few that can be termed large; and with the exception of one species (P. maximus), the generic identity of which is doubtful, it contains no fishes of magnitude.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 4 , Issue 8 , August 1887 , pp. 337 - 339
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1887

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References

page 337 note 1 Agassiz, , “Rech. Poiss. Foss.” tom. ii. p. 287.Google Scholar

page 337 note 2 Op. cit. tom. ii.

page 337 note 3 Mem. Geol. Surv. Decades vi. and viii.

page note 338 1 See Plate X. Fig. 3. The entire fish has been drawn (but not yet published), for a new edition of the Supplement to the Geology of Weymouth and the Isle of Portland.