Zool. [f. SQUAMA. See -ATION.] The condition or character of being covered with scales; a special mode or form of this.
1881. Nature, No. 627. 2/1. A Palæoniscoid fish showing a condition of squamation almost identical with that of Polyodon.
1889. Nicholson & Lydekker, Palæontology (ed. 3), II. 987. A fish from the Muschelkalk … has been made the type of the genus Prohalecites on account of peculiar features in its squamation.
1900. Nature, 20 Sept., 507/1. Eurynotus … still retains the palæoniscid squamation.
