Upper Devonian Fishes from New South Wales

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I. I introduction S ome years ago, the Geological Survey of New South Wales sent a small collection of Devonian fishes from that State to Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, who, however, beyond exhibiting certain specimens at a meeting of the Geological Society in 1916, did not deal more fully with them, and I am greatly indebted to him both for permission to describe the remains, and for discussion and revision of the manuscript. The Under-Secretary for Mines in Sydney sanctioned the undertaking of the descriptions, and I was especially fortunate in that Prof. Stensiö of Stockholm was able to examine the collection and to recognize among certain of the specimens that had been put aside as not belonging to known genera, plates of a new Antiarchan, Remigolepis Stensiö, which he has found in the Upper Devonian rocks of East Greenland. He also allowed me full use of the proofs of his recent paper ( Stensiö, 1931 ), in which the new genus is described. I am obliged to Dr. W. D. Lang and Dr. E. I. White for the provision of facilities at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, and to the Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 for granting an extension of my scholarship to enable the work to be carried out. II. G eology (i) Harvey's Range.—By far the greatest part of the collection comes from Harvey's Range, north-north-east of Parkes, where the fossiliferous formation is a coarse sandstone in which the broken plates are preserved as moulds, the rock being

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