Orcadian fish from the Devonian of Scotland

Palaeontological Collection of the Hunterian Museum

NB Spelling and names of genera, species and localities may not be current.

Brachyacanthus scutiger

Duntrune: V3548

Cheirocanthus murchinsoni

Wasbister: V3574
Stromness: V2409
Sandwick: V2401, V2403?, V3597?, V7404, V7422?
Achanarras: V2403?, V2404?, V2413, V7412?, V7422?
Cromarty: V2407, V2408, V7012

Cheirolepis murchisoni

Sandwick: V3539, V3564, V7433, V7434
Skaill: V7429
Cruaday Hill: V8052
Birsay: V7415
Bookan: V7430, V7431
Orkney (non-loc): V2482, V2488, V3532?
Edderton: V7150, V7152

Cheirolepis trailli

Birsay: V3642

Coccosteus cuspidatus

Achanarras: V7029

Coccosteus dicipiens

Orkney (non-loc.): V7667, V7668
Stronsay: V7246
Bookan: V3533?, V3534, V3537, V3538, V3561/1-2, V3569, V7249, V7250, V7251, V7252, V7253, V7255, V7666 (with D. striatus), V7670, V7671, V7673, V7677?
Belyacreugh: V7665
Cruaday Hill: V7669
Eathie: V2424, V7301, V7302, V7309
Cromarty (non-loc.): V2422/V2423, V2424
Achanarras: V2425, V3576, V3585, V7024, V7248
Edderton: V7157, V7159, V7558, uncat. Etched

Dickosteus threiplandi

Sandwick: V7676
Birsay: V7674, V7675
Stronsay: V7086, V7246
Stenness: V7232
Bookan: V3575
Westray: V7234, V7179
Achanarras: V7025?, uncat.
Thurso: V7245

Diplocanthus crassisimus

Sandwick: V3530, V3557, V3565, V7064, V7394, V7395, V7397, V7398, V7399, V7400, V7401, V7402, V7405, V7679, V7680
Cruaday Hill: V8056
Stenness: V3657
Achanarras: V7013
Edderton: V7161, V7162, V7163, V7164, V7166, V7167, V7168, V7169, V7170
?Overtown/Eathie: V7392, V8188
Cromarty: V3604 (Hugh Miller Specimen)

Diplopterax agassizi

Orkney (non-loc.): V2485, V3553?, V3590, V3591, V7535, V7537?, V7539, V7540, V7543, V7547?, V7549, V7550?, V7551, V7554?
Dounby: V7545
Bookan: V3632
Firth: V7546, V7553
Sandwick: V7544, V7661
Scapa: V7548, V7555
Orphir: V7538
Achanarras: V2473?,V2476?, V7536?

Dipterus valenciennesi

Orkney (non-loc.): V3641, V7590?, V7592?, V7595
Cruaday Hill: V7593, V8055, V8057, V8059, V8060
St Andrews: V3554, V3637, V7542, V7598
Deerness: V3599, V7588, V7589, V8066
Sandwick: V7662
Bay of Meall: V7585
Georgemass: V3583, V3586, V3593
Achanarras: uncat., V3567?, V3598, V3602?, V3603, V3618?, V3635, V3640, V7016, V7030, V7034, V7489, V7594, V7596, V7597, V8051?
Thurso: V3593, V3806, V8150
Caithness (non-loc.): V2447, V2449, V3568
Cromarty: V2487

Glyptolepis paucidens

Orkney (non-loc.): V7260, V7564, V7569?, V7570
Papa Westray: V7563, V7473?, V7575, V7581
Kirkwall: V7566
Wasdale, Caithness: V7565
Achanarras: V7028

Gyroptichius agassizi

Orkney (non-loc.): V7259, V7567, V7583
Cruaday Hill: V8065
Bookan: V7568, V7570, BV7571

Homosteus milleri

Todale: V8190
Orkney (non-loc.): V7254, V7383, V7386, V7390
Birsay: V7380, V7384, V7385, V7387
Kirkwall: V7381, V7389
Stronsay: V7382

Mesacanthus mitchelli

Duntrane: V3522, V3524
Berisay: V7414
Orkney (non-loc.): V7419, V7421?
Tillywhandland: V8118/1-4, V8119?
Turin Hill: V3521, V8189
Angus: V3547?, V7416
Achanarras: V7014, V7017, V7018, V7019, V7396, V7406, V7407, V7411, V7418, V7423

Millerosteus minor

Orkney (non-loc.): V7244, V7388
Kirkwall:V7664
Caithness: V3582 ,

Osteolepis macrolepidotes

Orkney (non-loc.): V2343, V2344, V7452, V7458, V7459, V7462, V7503, V7512, V7514, V7525, V7529
Dounby: V7504
Sandwick: uncat., V3531, V3560, V3563, V3638, V7449, V7450, V7453, V7454, V7460/1-2, V7461, V7464, V7466, V7469, V7470, V7663
Skaill: V7435, V7439?, V7448, V7472, V7476, V7579, V7491, V7500
Stromness: V2452, V7442?, V7455
Deerness: V3556, V7478
Bookan: V7436, V7437, V7438, V7439?
Toab: V7490
Cruaday Hill: V8053, V8054, V8061, V8062, V8063, V8064
Bay of Meall: V7513
Achanarras: V2450?, V2451?, V2469?, V2475?, V2478/1-2, V2481, V2486, V3594, V7033, V7441?, V7477?, V7501?, V7528?, V7591, V7632, V8227?
Thurso: V2474, V2479, V2480, V3558, V3768, V7451, V7457, V7516
Holburn Head: V2345, V3579, V3595, V7440, V7443, V7463, V7505/1-5, V7507, V7508, V7509, V7510, V7527, V7532, V7533
Reay:V3639
Georgemass: V3587, V3588, V3589
Skinnet: V3584
Overtonmoor: V7502
Cromarty (non-loc.): V2468, V2472, V7517
Edderton: V2471, V7151, V7153, V7154
Non-loc.: V2448, V3550, V3768, V7506, V7468, V7471, V7475, V7492, V7499, V7530

Pentlandia macropterus

Deerness: V7582, V7584, V7587

Pterichthyodes milleri

Orkney (non-loc.): V2497, V7145?, V7148
Stromness: V3562
Sandwick: V7144
Stronsay: V7235/1-7
Achanarras: V7026, V7027, V7147, V8043
Cromarty (non-loc.): V2418/V2419, V3424, V7648, V8229

Thursius pholidotus

Dounreay: V8402
Thurso: V7456

Tristicopterus alatus

Durness: V3636, V7586
Deerness: V3552, V7557, V7558, V7560, V7562

indet.

Achanarras: V7032, V7531
Orkney (non-loc.): V7515, V7518-V7524, V7561
Skaill: V7526
Deerness: V7559

Palaeospondylus gunni from Achanarras (length of head to nearest mm)

model (300mm full length of model)
uncat (4mm)
V3578 (4mm)
V3580 (3mm)
V3580/1
V3580/2 (>4mm)
V3580/3
V3581
V3606 (2.5mm)
V3619 (6mm)
V3659 (3mm)
V7020 (4mm)
V7021/1a&b (5mm)
V7021/2a&b (3mm)
V7021/3a&b (3.5mm)
V7022/1
V7022/10 (4mm)
V7022/11 (5mm)
V7022/12
V7022/13
V7022/14
V7022/15 (4mm)
V7022/16 (6mm)
V7022/17 (4mm)
V7022/18 (4mm)
V7022/19 (4mm)
V7022/20 (4mm)
V7022/21 (4.5mm)
V7022/22
V7022/23 (5mm)
V7022/24 (3mm)
V7022/25 (2.5mm)
V7022/26 (3&5mm)
V7022/27 (3mm)
V7022/28 (3mm)
V7022/29 (4.5mm)
V7022/29a&b (3mm)
V7022/3 (3mm)
V7022/4 (4mm)
V7022/5 (3mm)
V7022/6
V7022/7 (3mm)
V7022/8 (2mm)
V7022/9 (3mm)
V7425 (4.5mm)
V7426/1
V7426/2 (2.5mm)
V7427 (3.5mm)
V7428 (5mm)
V8176/1 (4mm)
V8176/2 (5mm)
V8177 (5mm)
V8193 (4mm)
V8194

Acanthodians from the former collections of the Department of Geology, Dundee University.

Cheirocanthus murchisoni

(BM:7.13) Cromarty - 2 specimens
(BM:7.13) Gamrie - 3 specImens
(BM:7.11) Cromarty - 1 specimen
(BM:7.10) Gamrie - 1 specimen
(BM:7.9) Gamrie - 1 specimen

Diplacanthus striatus

(BM:7.13) Cromarty - 3 specimens
(BM:7.11) Cromarty - 1 specimen
(BM:7.10) Gamrie - 1 specimen
(BM:7.10) Tullywhandland - 1 specimen

Diplacanthus (Ischnacanthus) gracilis

(BM:7.11) Forfar - 1 specimen

Diplacanthus longispinus

(BM:7.9) Gamrie - 1 specimen

Cheirolepis trailli

(BM:7.13) Gamrie - 1 specimen
(BM:7.13) Cromarty - 1 specimen
(BM:7.11) Cromarty - 2 specimens
(BM:7.10) Cromarty - 1 specimen
(BM:7.9) Cromarty - 1 specimen

?Brachyacanthus scutiger

(BM:7.11) Balruddery - 1 specimen

Parexus recurvus

(BM:7.10) Tullywhandland - 1 specimen
(BM:7.10) Balruddery - 1 specimen

Mesacanthus mitchelli

(BM:7.10) Turin Hill

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