To him, the ganoid was a huge perplexity, none the less because neither he nor the ganoid troubled Darwinians, but the more because it helped to reveal that Darwinism seemed to survive only in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight (1901)] Reference

Dense, equidimensional elements, such as teeth and ganoid fish scales, dominate the sandstone assemblage.    From Wordnik.com.  [CONGRATS LAURA!!!] Reference

Two percent of the entire fauna are vertebrates, ganoid-scaled and bony fishes being the most common group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Messel Pit fossil site, Germany] Reference

Statistical comparisons were made among osteichthyans using ganoid scales, caudates using vertebrae, ornithischians using teeth, and testudinates using shell fragments.    From Wordnik.com.  [CONGRATS LAURA!!!] Reference

(I apologise for ganoid, though it is not a swear-word).    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference

The fishes exchanged their ganoid breast-plate for scales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference

They undoubtedly are the palatal teeth of the fossil extinct ganoid fish Lepidotus.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference

Trias combined characters of the Batrachia with those of crocodiles, lizards, and ganoid fishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays] Reference

The most common example of the ganoid fish is the sturgeon, which is heavily clad with a bony armor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts] Reference

From these primitive fishes were evolved higher fishes of the ganoid type and others of the type of Lepidosiren.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference

In the Triassic and Jurassic, little progress was made among the fishes, and the ganoid was still the leading type.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Geology] Reference

Cycloid Fish Scale - The primary types of fish scales include placoid, cosmoid, ganoid, ctenoid, and cycloid scales.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

But it was not a sturgeon, though sturgeons are now the main representatives of what once were innumerable ganoid species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long Ago, Far Away] Reference

This preservation of ancient forms in islands appears to me like the preservation of ganoid fishes in our present freshwaters.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

On this, as on other occasions, I was struck by the complex and very various forms assumed by the ganoid scales of the Wealden.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference

Fishes: ganoid, now confined to fresh water, 107. electric organs of, 192. ganoid, living in fresh water, 321. of southern hemisphere, 376.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the origin of species] Reference

In the oldest secondary rocks of Britain and elsewhere there occur in abundance the teeth of a genus of ganoid fishes known as the Ceratodi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference

Finally, after almost an hour and three arrows, Shelby landed the prehistoric-looking fish with ganoid scales that work like medieval chain mail armor.    From Wordnik.com.  [thenewsstar.com - Local News] Reference

The palate of this ancient ganoid is furnished with a curious dental apparatus, formed apparenly, like that of the recent wolf-fish, for the purpose of crushing shells.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference

A few thousand feet, more or less, of limestone were the liveliest amusement to the ganoid, but they buried the uniformitarian alive, under the weight of his own uniformity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight (1901)] Reference

Most primitive bony fish species, however, generally possess scales of ganoid or cosmoid type, which are thick and composed of several layers of bone, enamel, and related substances.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Orkney is a land of defunct fishes, and contains in its rocky folds more individuals of the waning ganoid family than are now to be found in all the existing seas, lakes, and rivers of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference

Old Red Sandstone, -- some were remarkable for the strangeness of their forms, and some for constituting links of connection which no longer exist in nature, between the ganoid and placoid orders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference

It is further worthy of notice, that though many of the ganoid scales of the Secondary systems, including those of the Wealden, glitter as brightly in burnished enamel as the more splendent scales of the Old Red.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference

I saw a few ganoid scales, washed by the rain from the investing rubbish, glittering on fragments of the limestone, with a few of the characteristic shells of the deposit, chiefly Unionidæ; but nothing worth bringing away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference

Europe by informing it that he had found the extinct ganoid swimming about as large as life, and six feet long, without the faintest consciousness of its own scientific importance, in a river in Queensland at the present day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference

For instance, some species of Trigonia, a great genus of shells in the secondary formations, survive in the Australian seas; and a few members of the great and almost extinct group of ganoid fishes still inhabit our fresh waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings. On Extinction] Reference

The ganoid fish seemed to prove, —to him, —that it had selected neither new form nor new force, but that the curates were right in thinking that force could be increased in volume or raised in intensity only by help of outside force.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight (1901)] Reference

They were made when there were three-toed horses and many ganoid fishes on the earth. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Long Ago, Far Away] Reference

"But on Earth we have weather, and it happened a long, long time ago, back in the days of three-toed horses and ganoid fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long Ago, Far Away] Reference

A ganoid as bulky as a large porpoise, and which, as shown by its teeth and jaws, possessed that peculiar organization which characterized the reptile fish of the Upper Devonian and Carboniferous periods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference

It was a ganoid fish, like a sturgeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long Ago, Far Away] Reference

ganoid, living in fresh water, 321.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference

Fishes, ganoid, now confined to fresh water, 107.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference