XIV.—On Fossil Fish-remains collected by J. S. Flett, M.A., D.Sc., from the Old Red Sandstone of Shetland
| Autor: | Ramsay H. Traquair |
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| Rok vydání: | 1909 |
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| Zdroj: | Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 46:321-329 |
| ISSN: | 2053-5945 0080-4568 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0080456800002787 |
| Popis: | Little has hitherto been known about the animal remains of the Old Red Sandstone of Shetland. In 1858 Sir Roderick Murchison mentioned the occurrence, in flaggy beds in the environs of Lerwick, of “the same little Crustacean (the Estheria) which occurs at Thurso and Kirkwall.” Heddle in 1878 refers to the occurrence of fish-remains in the rocks of the same region in the following terms:—“Specimens of small fishes, apparently acanthoides, were shown the writer; these were imbedded in a brown fine-grained muddy sandstone; they were stated to occur in a quarry north of Gardie in Bressay.” Again, in the same year, Sir A. Geikie, in his well-known paper on the “Old Red Sandstone of Western Europe,” states that Dr HEDDLE “informs me that he was shown some ichthyolites (Coccosteus, etc.) in Bressay, which he was assured had been found among the flagstones of that island.” Unfortunately it does not appear that any description of these specimens has ever been published, nor, so far as I am aware, is their present whereabouts known. |
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