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I.—Description of Cycloptychius Carbonarius, Huxley, from the Coal Measures of North Staffordshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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The beautiful little fish, from the North Staffordshire ‘Deep Mine Ironstone,” named by Prof. Huxley Cycloptychius car-bonarius, has hitherto never been figured, and only a brief description of it was published in 1865 by Prof. Young, of Glasgow. Cursory allusion has been made to its teeth by Messrs. Hancock and Atthey, and to its scales by Mr. T. P. Barkas.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1874

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References

page 241 note 1 British Assoc. Reports, 1865, vol. XXXV. p. 318.Google Scholar

page 241 note 2 Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1868, 4th series, vol. i. p. 362.Google Scholar

page 241 note 3 Illustrated Guide to the Fish, Amphibian, Reptilian, and supposed Mammalian Remains of the Northumberland Carboniferous Strata, London, 1873, p. 36; Atlas, fig. 140.Google Scholar

page 243 note 1 Handbuch der Petrefactenkunde, Tab. 18, fig. 3.

page 243 note 2 Op. cit. p. 362.Google Scholar

page 244 note 1 Op. cit. p. 319.Google Scholar

page 244 note 2 Op. cit. p. 37.Google Scholar

page 244 note 3 The ornament of the surface is in most of the specimens very badly preserved, or rather, badly seen, from the tendency of the superficial layer of the scale to split off. It is unusually well exhibited in the specimen, Pl. XII. Fig. 1, from whose scales the above description, and the magnified view in Fig. 5, were taken.

page 245 note 1 See the description and figure of Catopterus, by W. H. Redfield, Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York, iv. p. 38, pl. i.; and by J. C. Redfield, Am. Journ. Sc. 1841, xli. p.27.Google Scholar