scholarly journals Fossil Fish-remains from Carboniferous Shales at Cultra, Co. Down, Ireland

1889 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-334
Author(s):  
James W. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains

IV.—Carboniferous Fish-Remains in North Derbyshire

1908 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 309-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Wilfrid Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Large Collection ◽  
Limestone Quarry ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains ◽  
Fish Teeth ◽  
Flowing Well

Some time ago Mr. R. Cairns, of Ashton-under-Lyne, sent me for identification a large collection of fossil fish-teeth, which he had obtained in a limestone quarry near Sparrowpit, in North Derbyshire, not far from the celebrated “ebbing and flowing well.”

VIII.—Note on a Species of Scymnus from the Upper Tertiary Formation of New Zealand

1888 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 315-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Davis
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
Small Tooth ◽  
Royal Dublin Society ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains

In a Memoir recently published “On the Fossil Fish Remains of the Tertiary and Cretaceo-Tertiary Formations of New Zealand” (Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, vol. iv. ser. II. p. 11, pl. vi. fig. 22) there is described a small tooth as an immature example of Carcharodon angustidens, Ag. The specimen was included amongst a large number of others forwarded for examination by Sir James Hector, Director-General of the Geological Survey of New Zealand; it is a small tooth, exquisitely preserved, and does not exhibit any signs of abrasion by use, which led to its being provisionally considered as the tooth of a young shark, and its form and minutely serrated margin appeared to indicate that its relationship was with Carcharodon.

Devonian miospores from Papa Stour, Shetland

1988 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. A. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Close Similarity ◽  
Plate Tectonic ◽  
Red Sandstone ◽  
Good Preservation ◽  
Sedimentary Deposits ◽  
Volcanic Sequence ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains ◽  
Orcadian Basin ◽  
Age Range

ABSTRACTDevonian miospores have been discovered in the previously poorly dated Old Red Sandstone volcanic sequence of Papa Stour. They occur at two sites in minor sedimentary deposits between the lavas, and fossil fish remains are also present. The age range of the miospores is mid Eifelian to early Givetian, probably more specifically late Eifelian and from a position close to the Achanarras horizon. This allows a correlation of the Papa Stour volcanic sequence with that of the Upper Stromness Flags of Orkney and not the tuffaceous horizons in the Eday Sandstones. The good preservation and composition of the miospores indicate a close similarity to other Orcadian Basin sediments and support the view that the Old Red Sandstone sequences W of the Melby Fault have affinities with the Orkney and Caithness successions rather than with Shetland. The age of the volcanic sequence also provides a valuable datum point for plate tectonic models based on the geochemistry of Old Red Sandstone lavas.

scholarly journals XXVIII.—On the Distribution of Fossil Fish-remains in the Carboniferous Rocks of the Edinburgh District

1905 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 687-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramsay H. Traquair
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains ◽  
The City

The district in which the city of Edinburgh is situated was one of the first in Britain from which fish-remains of Carboniferous age were collected. It is now sixty-seven years ago since Agassiz described the fossil fishes which were discovered by Lord Greenock at Wardie. Dr Hibbert at Burdiehouse, and Professor Jameson at Burntisland. The list given from this region in the “Tableau Générale” at the beginning of the Poissons Fossiles comprises twenty-nine names, of which eight were nomina nuda and are not now verifiable, the original specimens being lost; one, Diplodus minutus, was described, but insufficiently, and the original is also lost; six are synonyms of others in the list; leaving fourteen good species, of which one, Ptychacanthus sublævis, is a synonym of a Selachian spine (Tristychius arcuatus), described and figured from the Glasgow district.

III.—Report on Fossil Fishes collected by the Geological Survey of Scotland in Eskdale and Liddesdale. Part I.—Ganoidei

1881 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramsay H. Traquair
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains

I am indebted to the kindness of Professor Ramsay, Director-General, and of Professor Geikie, Director of the Scottish Branch of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, for the privilege of examining and describing a remarkable collection of fossil fish-remains from the Lower Carboniferous rocks (Calciferous Sandstone Series) of Eskdale and Liddesdale. Most of the specimens were collected by Mr Arthur Macconochie, one of the collectors attached to the Scottish Geological Survey; and Mr Walter Park of Brooklyn Cottage, Langholm, has also willingly co-operated in the search, so far as the district of Eskdale is concerned. I have myself also had the pleasure of twice visiting Eskdale, along with Mr Macconochie and Mr B. N. Peach, and on these occasions I obtained a few specimens for my own collection.

I.—Fossil Fishes in the Devonian Rocks of North Devon

1919 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inkermann Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Plants ◽  
Red Sandstone ◽  
The Past ◽  
Plant Remains ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Special Notice

The Devonian rocks in Devon, like those of the Old Red Sandstone of which they are the equivalents, have been divided into three groups. Mr. T. M. Hall, writing in 1879, quoted no less than five separate classifications suggested for the beds of North Devon, nor has uncertainty been removed by the conclusions arrived at by geologists since that date. But we may for present purposes take the following as the nearest approach to a generally accepted succession:—While examining the rocks of the Middle and Upper series for fossil plants during the past eleven years (1907–18), the results of which have already in part been published, other discoveries were made incidental to the work of collection of plant remains. Among these the discovery of fossil fish remains seems worthy of special notice.

scholarly journals I.—Eminent Living Geologists

1909 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 241-250
Author(s):  
Ramsay Heatley Traquair
Keyword(s):  
Accurate Determination ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
Precise Knowledge ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains

Many sciences contribute to the progress of geology, but none is more essential to it than that of zoology. The accurate determination of fossils, which can only be done by a trained systematic zoologist, is a necessity for stratigraphical work, and the broad questions of the geography of past ages can only be discussed with the aid of those who understand the distribution of life in the existing world. Dr. Traquair, the eminent ichthyologist of Edinburgh, though scarcely a geologist in the strict sense of the term, may therefore be claimed as one of the leaders in our science, for he has devoted more than forty years to the interpretation of fossil fish-remains, and so laid the foundations of a precise knowledge of extinct fishes which is as important to the stratigraphical geologist as to the biological philosopher.

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