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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of fossil ganoid fishes, of the Devonian or Old Red Sandstone formation, with minute scales and greatly developed pectoral and ventral fins, generally referred to the family Palæoniscidæ. Also Cheirolepis.

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