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I.—A Contribution to Knowledge of the Fossil Fish Fauna of the English Purbeck Beds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Arthur Smith Woodward
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Since the publication of the notes on some new fishes from the English Purbeck and Wealden Beds five years ago, the Rev. W. R. Andrews, of Teffont, has kindly entrusted to the writer for examination a fine series of Purbeckian fishes from the Vale of Wardour. All the members of this fauna are remarkably diminutive, compared with those met with in the corresponding formation in Dorsetshire; but nearly all the species are well preserved, and some are sufficiently novel to be worthy of detailed description. The Pycnodont genus Mesodon, which was first described from the English Purbeck in the paper already cited, is here represented by one or two more forms; the Lepidosteoid Macrosemius is now first definitely recorded as a British fossil; additional examples of Pleuropholis extend previous information of that genus; new specimens of Leptolepis Brodiei add to the known specific characters of this fish; and the opportunity is now afforded for publishing a figure of the small Palæoniscid, Coccolepis andrewsi.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , April 1895 , pp. 145 - 152
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1895

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page 145 note 1 Woodward, A. S. “On some New Fishes from the English Wealden and Purbeck Beds referable to the genera Oligopleurus, Strobilodus, and Mesodon,” Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, pp. 346–353, pls. xxviii., xxix.Google Scholar

page 145 note 2 For a valuable account of the stratigraphy of the formations in which these fishes occur, see Andrews, W. R. and Jukes-Browne, A. J., “The Purbeck Beds of the Vale of Wardour,” Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Vol. 1. (1894), pp. 44–69.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 146 note 1 Woodward, A.S., “Notes on some Ganoid Fishes from the English Lower Lias,” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. [6] vol. v. (1890), p. 433.Google Scholar

page 147 note 1 The bone here named “preoperculum” has hitherto been named operculum, while the “operculum” has always been described as supraclavicle. The writer will shortly publish proof of the accuracy of this amended interpretation.

page 149 note 1 Sauvage, H. E. Bull. Soc. Géol. France [3] vol. xi. (1883), p. 477, pl. xii. fig. 17.Google Scholar