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New Scottish Material of Eusthenopteron

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

T. Stanley Westoll
Affiliation:
Marischal College, Aberdeen

Extract

The existence of the Crossopterygian fish Eusthenopteron in the Old Red Sandstone of the Moray Firth area has been recorded recently by the writer (Westoll, 1937). Since that time new material has been found in the collections of the Royal Scottish Museum; the specimens comprise a “parietal” shield and other remains from Boghole, and an imperfect “fronto-ethmoid” shield, of which the provenance is unknown. Dr. A. G. Stephen, of the Royal Scottish Museum, has been most kind in allowing the writer to study this and other comparative material.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1940

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