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The fossil fish materials described in this paper contain a part of the collection made by P’an Kiang of the Geological Museum of the Ministry of Geology. While making geological reconnaissances around Nanking in 1953, at Lai-ku-tai, a small hill near Lungtan about 30 km east of city, a few broken Pterichthyes plates identified by, H.T.Liu were discovered from the grayish black shales at the upper part of the Wutung Weries. The discovery of the Pterichthyes (Antiarchi) remains, which shows itself most probably to be a Devenian form, from the Wutung Series is quite interesting and important from both the points of view of palaeontology and stratigraphy. Since the Wutung series has long been admitted as Lower Carboniferous in age according to palaeobotanical researches, therefore, before the Devonian age of the Wutung Series is warranted, scrupulous and intensive studies of better fish materials areneeded. So in 1955 another excavation was made under the auspices of the original discoverer. This time several well preserved nearly complete Pterichthyes and a great number of isolated plates of it were successfully found. Together with these fish plated there are a few scales of Dipnoian and Crossopterygian and many plant remains. The present paper deals with the Pterichthyes of the collection only.
In undertaking this work, the authors had constantly referred to Professor Erik Aison Stensios various works on the Pterichthyes fished which are most valuable and useful to them. Therefore throughout this work, the anatomical nomenclatures of the Pterichthyes follow Prof. Stensios designation in his monography “on the Placodermi of the Upper Devonian of East Greenland” of 1948.
Preface
Introduction
Palaeontological description
Class Pterichthyes (Antiarchi) Berg
Order Asterolepiforms Berg
Family Sinolepidae Lu et P’an fam.nov
Genus Sinolepis Liu et P’an gen.nov
Genotype Sinolepis macrocephala Liu et P’an gen.et sp.nov
Species S. Wutungensis Liu et P’an sp.nov
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Refernces
Plates and their explanations
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