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Excerpt from Catalog of the Fossil Fishes in the Carnegie Museum, Vol. 4: Descriptive Catalog of Fossil Fishes From the Lithographic Stone of Solenhofen, Bavaria Portions of the fin - membrane or shagreen-covering of the pectoral pair, as well as the greater part of the pelvic, anal, and caudal fins are preserved. The anal is nearly opposite the posterior dorsal, and except for being more sharply pointed, resembles it in form and proportions. The pelvic pair is decidedly acumi nate, and placed midway between the anal and pectoral pair. The pelvics slightly exceed the second dorsal in size, which latter is somewhat higher and longer than the first dorsal; and the depth [width] of the pectorals is about one third greater than that of the pelvic pair. Nearly the entire front margin of the right pectoral fin is preserved, but the distal portion of the left pectoral is either concealed or broken away. The same is true of the terminal part of both lobes of the caudal.5 The general outline of body and position of all the fins is shown in Plate LVII, fig. 1. The shaded area immediately behind the head and thoracic region indi cates a fracture in the containing rock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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