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The Fishes of the “Crangopsis Bed” at Ardross, Fifeshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Errol Ivor White
Errol Ivor White
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Dept. of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
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One of the first authors to note the Ardross fauna was the Rev. T. Brown (1861, pp. 394–5), who “detected small scales of some species of Palaeoniscus, and a good specimen of an Amblypterus, which seemed to be the A. striatus. There were teeth and scales also of a Holoptychius; and their resemblance to the figure of the H. portlocki … seemed to be complete”.

The fauna was summarized by Peach (1902, pp. 357–375), who, in addition to two plants, four arthropods, five brachiopods, and six lamellibranchs, gave the following list of fishes:—

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Geological Magazine , Volume 74 , Issue 9 , September 1937 , pp. 411 - 428
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1937

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