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III.—On a Genus and Species of Sauroid Fish (Ditaxiodus impar, 1 Ow.) from the Kimmeridge Clay of Culham, Oxfordshire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
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The generic name of the Sauroid Fish, here indicated by portions of jaws, relates to the unusually well-marked arrangement of the teeth on the dentary bone in two almost parallel ranks along the whole of its alveolar border. The outer rank (Plate V. fig. 1) consisting of few and large teeth; the inner rank of small ones in greater number.
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δίς, double; τάξις, rank; 'οδούς, tooth.
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1 δίς, double; τάξις, rank; 'οδούς, tooth.
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