IV, —Note on Rhinobatus bugesiacus—a Selachian Fish from the Lithographic Stone

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Since 1857, the occurrence of a gigantic species of the Selachian family Rhinobatidæ in the Lithographic Stone of Bavaria has been well known, and three fine specimens are exhibited in the Munich Museum. No figure, however, appeared until 1887, when Dr. K. A. von Zittel published the illustration he has kindly allowed to be reproduced here; and the only detailed description is that of Wagner, written about thirty years ago. Quite recently, the British Museum has acquired the counterpart of one of the fossils in the Munich collection—a female individual in a remarkable state of preservation; and this is now exhibited in the form of a slab upon the west wall of the Gallery of Fossil Fishes.