Author: Nielsen, Eigil
Title: Studies on Triassic Fishes from East Greenland: I: Glaucolepsis and Boreosomus
Description: Kobenhavn, C.A. Reitzel, 1942. orig.wrappers. 29x17cm, 403,(30) pp, Inscribed by author on cover. University of Copenhagen doctoral dissertation. Reprinted from "Palaeozoolog. 30pp photoplates. Some light side page-edge spots. Foxed. Rubbed. VG. ¶ Includes 30 single-side photoplates on heavy-stock paper.Contents: Introduction; Methods of Investigation; Glaucolepsis Stensiö; Remarks on the Brain; Parasphenoid; Vomer; Dermal Bones on the Dorsal Side of the Neural Endocranium; Infraorbitals Suborbitals & Sclerotic Ring; The Palatoquadrate & its Dermal Bones; & the Dermal Bones of the Cheek Which Together with the Palatoquadrate form the Complex Palatoquadrate-Maxillary Apparatus; Mandible; Hyoid Arch, Dermohyal, Antoperculum; Operculum; Suboperculum; Branchiostegal Rays & Gular Plate; Branchial Arches & Basibranchial Series; Ornament of the Dermal Bones of the Head; Dentition; Endoskeleton of the Shoulder Girdle; Dermal Bones of the Shoulder Girdle; Pectoral Fin; Pelvic Plate & Pelvic Fin; Unpaired Fins; Squamation; Generic Diagnosis; The Greenland Species of Glaucolepsis; Remarks on other Species of Glaucolepis; Remarks on the Family Palaeoniscidae s. str. Aldinger; Boreosomus Stensiö; Remarks on the Relationship Between Boreosomus & other Genera of the Family Acrolepidae Aldinger; Summary & Conclusions.

Keywords: Arctic Palaeontology, Greenland, Paleontology, Fossil Fish Fossils, Triassic Fishes, Glaucolepsis, Boreosomus, Acrolepidae, Ichthyology