Ganoid

Again, vast as is the number of undoubtedly Ganoid fossil

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The Fishes of the Jurassic sea were exceedingly numerous, but were all of the Ganoid and Selachian tribes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

And it is in fresh-water basins that we find seven genera of Ganoid fishes, remnants of a once preponderant order: and in fresh water we find some of the most anomalous forms now known in the world as the Ornithorhynchus and Lepidosiren which, like fossils, connect to a certain extent orders at present widely sundered in the natural scale.

IV. Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest. Circumstances Favourable for the Production of New Forms Through Natural Selection 1909

Ganoid Fishes—Fishes covered with peculiar enamelled bony scales.

Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume 1909

Ganoid breast-plate of ancient fishes, in reference to animal mobility,

Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900

A similar structure of tooth is found in some Ganoid fishes, and an incipient stage (as it were) of the same condition existed in the Ichthyosaurus.

The Common Frog 1874

It is true that all existing Urodeles are fresh-water forms, but it may well be that marine creatures once bore the same relation to them as the great marine Ganoid fish fauna bears to the few existing Ganoids 13 which now constitute a fresh-water group.

The Common Frog 1874

[1] Some of the lower vertebrata (Elasmobranch and Ganoid fishes) occur, indeed, in early strata (upper Silurian); but still far from the earliest in which some of the invertebrata are found.

The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution George John Romanes 1871

And it is in fresh water that we find seven genera of Ganoid fishes. remnants of a once preponderant order: and in fresh water we find some of the most anomalous forms now known in the world, as the Ornithorhynchus and Lepidosiren, which, like fossils, connect to a certain extent orders now widely separated in the natural scale.

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1859

For instance, a single species of Trigonia, a great genus of shells in the secondary formations, survives in the Australian seas; and a few members of the great and almost extinct group of Ganoid fishes still inhabit our fresh waters.

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1859