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FOSSIL FISH REMAINS FROM NEW ZEALAND.—Mr. Davis has recently described a number of fish remains from the Tertiary and Cretaceo-Tertiary formations of New Zealand. The memoir forms a part of the Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, and is illustrated by seven well-executed plates of the fossils. Some short time ago Mr. Davis received the remains of some fossil Tertiary Elasmobranchs from Prof. F. W. Hutton, from New Zealand, which formed the subject of a short communication to the Geological Society of London; but a much larger collection having been in the meanwhile received, permission was granted for the withdrawal of the paper, and now, based on several additional collections, we have the present memoir, which for the first time does justice to these interesting fossil forms by full descriptions and excellent figures. The memoir opens with an account of the Tertiary formations of New Zealand, based on the results attained by the Geological Survey under Sir James Hector, while notice is taken also of the views of Prof. Hutton and Sir J. von Haast. In addition to the remains of fish, some Saurian teeth, as well as those of a Squalodon, have been found. Of the thirty-five species of fish described, no lees than twenty-eight appear as new species; of these thirty-five, twenty-eight are Sharks, four are Rays, two belong to the Chimerids, and one to the Teleostei. A new species of toothed Whale, Squalodon serratus, is also described.—(Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, vol. iv. (ser. 2), part i. pp. 1–50, plates i.–vii.)
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Biological Notes . Nature 38, 137 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038137a0
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