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XXX.—The Lower Devonian Fishes of Gemünden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

R. H. Traquair
R. H. Traquair
Affiliation:
Keeper of the Natural History Collections in the Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh.
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Gemünden is situated in Rhenish Prussia, about eighteen miles to the west and slightly also to the south of Bingen, in the district known as the “Hunsrück,” and the rock in which the fishes to be described in this memoir occur is called the “Hunsrück Slates.”

These Hunsrück slates belong to the Lower Devonian of the Rhenish area, and the position assigned to them by German geologists is as follows:—

The above table is quoted from Kayser and Lake's Text-book of Comparative Geology, as is also the following brief statement regarding the Hunsrück slates themselves.

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Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , 1905 , pp. 723 - 739
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1905

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References

page 724 note * See Plate I. fig. 1 and Plate V. fig. 2, in which the scales on the side of the tail pedicle of Drepanaspis are in this manner concealed.

page 733 note * Traquair, R. H., Geol. Mag. (3), vol. vii., 1890, pl. iii. figs. 3, 4Google Scholar. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), vol. xiv., 1894 p. 369, woodcutGoogle Scholar. A. S. Woodward, Cat. Foss. Fishes, Brit. Mas., Pt. ii., pl. viii. figs. 5, 6.