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PALAEOSPONDYLUS , a small fish-like organism, of which the skeleton is found fossil in the Middle Old Red Sandstone
From British Museum Guide to Fossil Reptiles and Fishes, by permission of the Trustees.Palaeospondylus gunni, restored by Dr R. H. Traquair. (Nearly twice nat. size.) of Achanarras, near Thurso, Caithness. It was thus named (Gr. ancient vertebra) by Dr R. H. Traquair in 189o, in allusion to its well-developed vertebral rings; and its structure was studied in detail in 1903 by Professor and Miss Sollas, who succeeded in making enlarged models of the fossil in wax. The skeleton as preserved is carbonized, and indicates an eel-shaped animal from 3 to 5 cm., in length. The skull, which must have consisted of hardened cartilage, exhibits pairs of nasal and auditory capsules, with a gill-apparatus below its hinder part
ordinary jaws. The anterior opening of the brain-case is surrounded by a ring of hard cirri. A pair of " post-branchial plates " projects backwards from the head. The vertebral axis
series of broad rings, with distinct neural arches
body
arches
armour
Ostracoderms
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