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    A New Genus of Pennsylvania Fish (Crossoperygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas
    A New Genus of Pennsylvania Fish (Crossoperygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas
    A New Genus of Pennsylvania Fish (Crossoperygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas
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    A New Genus of Pennsylvania Fish (Crossoperygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas

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      A New Genus of Pennsylvania Fish (Crossoperygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas - Joan Echols

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      Title: A New Genus of Pennsylvania Fish (Crossoperygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas

      Author: Joan Echols

      Release Date: August 28, 2010 [EBook #33560]

      Language: English

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      University of Kansas Publications

      Museum of Natural History

      Volume 12, No. 10, pp. 475-501, 7 figs.

      October 25, 1963

      A New Genus of Pennsylvanian Fish (Crossopterygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas

      BY

      JOAN ECHOLS

      University of Kansas

      Lawrence

      1963

      University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History

      Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,

      Theodore H. Eaton, Jr.

      Volume 12, No. 10, pp. 475-501, 7 figs.

      Published October 25, 1963

      University of Kansas

      Lawrence, Kansas

      PRINTED BY

      JEAN M. NEIBARGER, STATE PRINTER

      TOPEKA, KANSAS

      1963

      New Genus of Pennsylvanian Fish (Crossopterygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas

      BY

      JOAN ECHOLS

      INTRODUCTION

      In 1931 and 1932, H. H. Lane, C. W. Hibbard and W. K. McNown collected the specimens that Hibbard (1933) described and made the basis of two new species. These were from the Rock Lake shale member of the Stanton formation, six miles northwest of Garnett, Anderson County, Kansas. In 1954, from a locality (KAn-1/D, see page 480) approximately one fourth mile southwest of the first locality, specimens were quarried by F. E. Peabody, R. W. Wilson and R. Weeks. In 1955 R. R. Camp collected additional blocks of Rock Lake shale from this second locality. Study of all of the materials from the above mentioned localities reveals the existence of an hitherto unrecognized genus of coelacanth. It is named and described below.

      I wish to thank Prof. Theodore H. Eaton, Jr., for suggesting the project and for much helpful advice. I am indebted to Dr. E. I. White of the British Museum (Natural History) for furnishing a cast of the endocranium of Rhabdoderma elegans (Newberry) for comparison, and to Drs. Donald Baird (Princeton University), Bobb Schaeffer (American Museum of Natural History) and R. H. Denison (Chicago Natural History Museum) for loans and exchanges of specimens for comparison. I am grateful to Dr. Bobb Schaeffer for advice on the manuscript. Mr. Merton C. Bowman assisted with the illustrations. The study here reported on was made while I was a Research Assistant supported by National Science Foundation Grant G-14013.

      SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTIONS

      Subclass CROSSOPTERYGII

      Superorder Coelacanthi

      Order Coelacanthiformes

      Suborder DIPLOCERCIDOIDEI

      Family Diplocercidae

      Subfamily Rhabdodermatinae, new subfamily

      Type genus.—Rhabdoderma Reis, 1888, Paleontographica, vol. 35, p. 71.

      Referred genus.—Synaptotylus new, described below.

      Horizon.—Carboniferous.

      Diagnosis.—Sphenethmoid region partly ossified, and consisting of basisphenoid, parasphenoid, and ethmoid ossifications; paired basipterygoid process and paired antotic process on basisphenoid; parasphenoid of normal size, and closely associated with, or fused to, basisphenoid; ethmoids paired in Rhabdoderma (unknown in Synaptotylus).

      Discussion.—Because of the great differences in endocranial structure between the Devonian and Pennsylvanian coelacanths, they are here placed in new

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