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VI.—Notes on the Affinities of the so-called “Torpedo” (Cyclobatis, Egerton) from the Cretaceous of Mount Lebanon1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. Smith Woodward
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In a paper read before the Geological Society in 1844, Sir Philip Egerton made known an interesting fossil Selachian from the Cretaceous beds of Mount Lebanon, which he named Cyclobatis oligodactylus, and referred to the Torpedinidæ, in consequence of its apparently unarmed skin and the resemblance between its general form and that of the familiar electric Torpedo. Six years afterwards Pictet figured and described a second specimen of the fish, adding some further particulars of the skeleton, and adopting Egerton's determination of its affinities. And quite lately, Mr. James W. Davis has made another contribution to our knowledge of the genus, by describing a larger and more robust species under the name of C. major. The fish is again relegated to the Torpedinidæ, and, so far as I have been able to discover, the same original determination has been universally adopted up to the present time.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 4 , Issue 11 , November 1887 , pp. 508 - 510
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1887

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