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IV.—Notes on the Lower Carboniferous Fishes of Eastern Fifeshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

R. H. Traquair
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Not much has as yet been done in the way of cataloguing the fossil fishes of the Lower Carboniferous rocks of Eastern Fifeshire. A few species and localities were noted by the late Rev. Thomas Brown in 1860 and by Mr. Kirkby in 1880, and the late Mr. Robert Walker published a paper in 1872 in which he described what he supposed to be a new species of Amblypterus (A. anconoœchmodus) from the Oil-shale works at Pitcorthy, near Anstruther. In this paper Mr. Walker drew attention to the abundance and variety of fish-remains in the oil-shale and ironstone worked at that locality, promising to describe them in detail afterwards—a promise which he was never able to fulfil. After his death in 1881, his important collection of fish-remains from this and other localities in East Fife was acquired by the Edinburgh Museum, and largely forms the basis of the present list. I myself have also done some collecting in this region; and a good many years ago the Museum acquired a number of specimens collected by Mr. W. T. Kinnear at Ardross, some of which are of great interest.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , March 1901 , pp. 110 - 114
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1901

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