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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
Among the many beautiful fossils from the Silurian strata of Bohemia, obtained by M. J. Barrande, there have been discovered numerous detached spines, measuring from six seven inches in length, which, from their resembalance to the genus Leptocheles of M'Coy, have received the MS. name of Leptocheles Bohemicus (Barr).
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page 203 note 4 Salter, Ibid.
page 203 note 5 M'Coy, , Pal. Foss. 1850. (Four species described.)Google Scholar
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page 204 note 2 Geological Magazine, Vol. II., p. 401, Pl. XI.Google Scholar
page 205 note 1 Not only do we now find spines of Ceratiocaris in the Wenlock Limestone, but numerous portions of Pterygoti have been met with by Messrs. John Gray, C. Ketley, L. P. Capewell, E. Hollier, and other gentlemen, at Dudley, and its vicinity.—H. W.
page 205 note 2 In the second edition of “Siluria,” these striated tail-spines are represented in Plate 19, Fig. 1 and 2, from the Uppermost Ludlow Bock, Ludlow, and are there correctly named Ceratiocaris Murchisoni, by Mr. Salter.
