Annual report (1906) (17807548363)

Title: Annual report
Identifier: annualreport6051906newy (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York State Museum
Subjects: New York State Museum; Science; Science
Publisher: Albany : University of the State of New York
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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DEVONIC FISHES OF THE NEW YORK FORMATIONS 167 more closely with Rhizodonts, and is definitely assigned to that family by Woodward. The enlarged scale ornament of the type specimen described by Hall is shown in plate 7, figure 9. A fairly accurate concept of the appearance presented by several Crossopterygian and other typical Devonic fishes is afforded by the restoration given in text figure 35, for which we are indebted to Mr F. A. Lucas, author of Animals before Man in Noi^ih Auierica and other popular works.
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Osteolepis. Devonian Fishes. The most commonly occurring scales of Holoptychius in the American Devonic, and at the same time the most widely distributed, are those of H. giganteus Agassiz, and H. am eric anus Newberry. They are found not only in the Catskill of New York and Pennsylvania, (W. ameri- c a n u s occurs in the Chemung of Delaware county as well), but also in the Upper Devonic of southwestern Colorado. The scales of H. giganteus