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The present paper gives for the first time a detailed account of the fossil fishes from the Inter-trappean beds of Bamanbor and Ninania Surendranagar District, Saurashtra. This study has revealed the prosence of two new generaHoraclupea andPalaeopristolepis represented here by one species of each. The other remaining form,Perca sp. cf.P. angusta Agassiz is based on skeletal remains. The Inter-trappean beds yielding this fish fauna are considered to be of freshwater lacustrine nature and of Palaeocene or perhaps Lower Eocene age.
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Communicated by Prof. T. S. Mahabtale,f.a.sc.
A preliminary note on these fishes has already appeared inCurrent Science, Vol. 42 (No. 12).
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Borkar, V.D. Fossil fishes from the Inter-trappean beds of Surendranagar District, Saurashtra. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 78, 181–193 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03045500
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