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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911. Excerpt: ... NOTES ON SOME LITTLE-KNOWN FISHES FROM THE NEW YORK DEVONIAN. BY BURNETT SMITH. Machceracanthus and other Fish Remains from the Oriskany Sandstone.--So far as the writer has been able to learn the literature of Paleontology contains no reference to the occurrence of fish remains in the Oriskany sandstone of New York. Beyond the boundaries of the State fossils of this nature have been reported from beds which are believed to be contemporaneous with the type Oriskany. Eastman1 mentions the scales of Thelodus from "Oriskany sandstone" at Nictaux Falls, N. S., while Newberry,2 in his monograph makes the following statement: "Neither in New York nor farther south has the Oriskany sandstone yet furnished any remains of fishes, but it is to be expected that when sought for patiently and discriminatingly they will be discovered. In Canada, north of Lake Erie, where the characteristic fossils of the New York Oriskany are associated with those of the Corniferous limestone, spines of Machceracanthus and fragments of plates with a stellate tuberculation, probably of Macropetalichthys, have been found." In the vicinity of Syracuse, N. Y., the presence of bone fragments and of spines in the phosphatic nodules of the Oriskany has been known to local collectors for some time. Several years ago Mr. Charles E. Wheelock, of Syracuse, obtained a spine from one of these concretions at Britton's quarry, Onondaga County (just south of the S3-racuse city line). This specimen has unfortunately been lost, but the writer feels that he can accept without reserve the determination of so careful an observer as Mr. Wheelock. In 1908, Mr. Charles Hares, then a graduate student at Syracuse University, while studying the stratigraphic relations of the Oriskany sandstone, brought to my not...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781154325164
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 266
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154325164
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 481 gr


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