Note 546 — Chapter XV
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This is of course only the cranial buckler of the animal, for, as Mr. Hugh Miller observes, "of the true internal skull there remains not a vestige. Like that of the Sturgeon, it must have been a perishable cartilaginous box."—Miller’s Foot-prints, p. 50.
[547] Miller, Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1850. Transact. Sect. p. 92. In the Annals of Natural History for November, 1848, Professor M‘Coy has given a corrected outline of the carapace, or bony cephalo-thoracic casing, of the Coccosteus. See also Miller’s Foot-prints, fig. 11.