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I.—Contributions to our Knowledge of the Fish-fauna of the Tertiary Deposits of the Highlands of Padang, Sumatra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Albert Günther
Albert Günther
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Keeper of the Zoological Department, British Museum.
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The Geological Magazine for October, 1875 (pp. 477–486), contains an article “On the Geology of Central Sumatra,” by Herr R. D. M. Verbeek, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of that island, in which the position of the fossiliferous rocks of the Highlands of Padang is sketched in a manner as clear as concise, and which must be consulted by those who desire to understand the palæontological age of the fossils described in this paper.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 3 , Issue 10 , October 1876 , pp. 433 - 440
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1876

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page 434 note 1 The manuscript of this paper had been delivered to the Editor, when Mr. Griesbach drew my attention to a paper on “Fossile Fische von Sumatra” by Dr. W. v. d. Marck, Palæontograph. 1876, April, pp. 405–414, pls. 23 and 24. As the materials in the British Museum were much richer than those at the disposal of that author, I had nothing, to alter in my manuscript, with the exception of the specific name of the most common fish of this formation, viz. Thynnichthys amblyostoma. Through Dr. v. d. Marck's paper I became acquainted with Prof. Rütimeyer's “Bemerkungen zu den fossilen Fischen von Sumatra” (Abhandl. Schweiz. palæont. Ges. i. 1874). To judge from his description, I think that the fish named “Smerdis” by him, will prove to be an Ambassis, a genus very common in the fresh-waters of the Indian region. The so-called Dussumierina appears to me to be fry, and, at present, indeterminable.

page 434 note 2 We may remark here that the skeleton figured by Agassiz, in Poiss. foss. vol. iv. tab. xxxv. fig. i., under the name of Aulostoma chinense, is not that species or even genus, but Fistularia tabaccaria.