Fossil Fishes of Great BritainGives a general outline of the classification and evolution of fishes from early Palaeozoic times onwards. This work describes the GCR sites in Britain from which important fish fossils have been obtained. It also describes the origins of the earliest tetrapods and their amphibian descendants. |
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Silurian fossil fishes sites of Scotland | 31 |
Late Silurian fossil fishes sites of the Welsh Borders | 63 |
Early Devonian fossil fishes sites of the Welsh Borders | 107 |
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abundant acanthodians Achanarras Actinopterygii Agassiz AGNATHA Allen amphibians Arthrodira assemblage basal base Basin Blieck Bone Bed Bothriolepis Britain Caithness Carboniferous Cephalaspis Chalk Chondrichthyes Cliff collected conglomerate conservation value Cretaceous deposits described Devonian Dineley Dipterus dorsal Duffin early Egerton Elasmobranchii facies Figure fish bed fish fauna fish remains fish sites fish-bearing fossil fossil fishes fragments genus Geological Glencartholm grey Group Gyrolepis alberti headshield Heterostraci Hill horizon hybodont Hybodus Jurassic known laminites Late Devonian Lepidotes Limestone Lissodus London Clay Lower Ludlow Bone Bed marine Marl material Middle mudstones Murchison Neopterygii Neoselachii nodules occur Old Red Sandstone Osteichthyes osteostracans Permian Placodermi preserved Přídolí Psammosteus Pteraspis Purbeck Quarry rocks sand Sarcopterygii Scaat Craig scales Scotland sediments sequence shales shark siltstone Silurian species specimens spines Stensiö Stonesfield stratigraphical teeth Temeside tetrapods thelodonts thick Traquair Trewin Triassic type locality vertebrate Wardie Welsh Borders Westoll White Woodward yielded Zone