FOREIGN LOCALITIES.
⁂ Although the present work is expressly designed as a guide to the British collector, I am induced to subjoin a few foreign localities of Ichthyolites, that lie within the reach of the continental tourist. A detailed account of the most celebrated sites is given by M. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss.
Aix, in Provence. Tertiary. Some of the beds of gypseous marl contain numerous species in abundance.
Eisleben, Upper Saxony. Permian. Numerous Ichthyolites in dark shale.
Glaris, Switzerland. Cret. Immense numbers of fishes in dark schist. The specimens are often contorted, from the contraction of their bodies, during decomposition.
Maestricht (St. Peter’s Mountain). Upper Cret. Numerous teeth, vertebræ, &c. of fishes of the Cretaceous epoch. See Wond. p. 309. Mansfeld, in Thuringia. Permian. Fishes in copper-slate, in great numbers; many extremely beautiful.
Monte Bolca, or Vestena Nova. Tert. The richest mine of Ichthyolites in the world. A catalogue of the numerous genera and species found in this celebrated locality, is given in Poiss. Foss. tom. iv. pp. 33-52.[573] See Wond. p. 265.
Mount Lebanon, Asia. Tert. Numerous Ichthyolites, in great perfection.
Œningen. Tert. fresh-water. Many kinds of fishes of the same genera as those which inhabit the great European lakes; as the Perch, Salmon, Eel, Pike, Carp, &c. A list of these Ichthyolites will be found in Poiss. Foss. tom. ii. part ii. p. 78. See Wond. p. 263.