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Published: 16 September 2024
Scottish Journal of Geology (2024) 60 (2): sjg2024-006.
...Michael J. Newman In 1860 Pander described a new species of fish from the Givetian of Scotland using the invalid name Osteolepis microlepidotus , which was a synonym of Osteolepis macrolepidotus . In 1948 Jarvik published a monograph on this fish, giving it the name Osteolepis panderi . However, he...
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Published: 17 July 2024
Journal of the Geological Society (2024) 181 (5): jgs2023-210.
...Hady George; Mohamad Bazzi; Tamara El Hossny; Nida Ashraf; Pierre Abi Saad; Thomas Clements The fossils of the Lebanese Upper Cretaceous Lagerstätten, especially the articulated fish, are world renowned. Famous for their soft tissue preservation and highly sought after by fossil collectors...
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Published: 04 July 2024
Scottish Journal of Geology (2024) 60 (2): sjg2024-002.
...Werner W. Schwarzhans; Matthew I. Wakefield The Lealt Shale Formation is known for its superb preservation of aragonitic molluscs. As fish otoliths are primarily composed of aragonite, and because of the semi-stable nature of this polymorph, records of otoliths become increasingly rare in deep time...
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Journal: GSA Bulletin
Published: 18 June 2024
GSA Bulletin (2025) 137 (1-2): 41–50.
... in Pennsylvania, USA, preserve a diversity of fishes and tetrapods in coastal marine to fluvial depositional environments, making this region ideal for investigating the ecology and evolution of Late Devonian vertebrates. A key unresolved issue has been reconstructing the specific aquatic habitats that hosted...
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Journal: Geology
Published: 23 May 2024
Geology (2024) 52 (8): 620–624.
...Wei Shu; Christophe Colin; Zhifei Liu; Arnaud Dapoigny Abstract A long-term neodymium isotope (ε Nd ) record of fossil fish teeth was investigated to constrain the evolution of deep-water circulation in the abyssal South China Sea (SCS) during the late Oligocene–Miocene (27–10 Ma). Fish teeth...
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Journal Article
Published: 12 March 2024
Journal of the Geological Society (2024) 181 (3): jgs2023-146.
... Formation and deepen our understanding of the relationship between Early Devonian fishes and the environment. The analyses of the sensitive geochemistry indices of depositional and tectonic settings, sedimentary provenance, weathering, palaeoclimate, palaeosalinity and palaeoredox conditions indicate...
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Journal Article
Published: 08 January 2024
Scottish Journal of Geology (2024) 60 (1): sjg2023-011.
...R. G. Davidson; N. H. Trewin; J. Armstrong; S. R. Waters Abstract The area known as Lethen Bar and Clune, SE of Nairn, Scotland, is a classic Middle Devonian locality, which has yielded nodules or concretions, some of which contain fossil fishes with the highest quality of preservation...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 August 2023
American Mineralogist (2023) 108 (8): 1506–1515.
...-bearing phosphides have an unusual morphology, which cannot be explained by crystallization from a melt. More probably, these phosphides can form in the process of replacing fish bone remains. We believe that sedimentary protolith was not thermally altered and contained a significant amount of bituminous...
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Series: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Published: 21 June 2023
DOI: 10.1144/SP529-2022-132
EISBN: 9781786209610
... Fig. 1. Biological and geological processes leading to the formation of otolith fossil and death assemblages. Fish production, mortality and predation control otolith input to the seafloor, where, initially, otoliths suffer the impacts of taphonomic mixing and deterioration...
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Published: 08 July 2022
Scottish Journal of Geology (2022) 58 (2): sjg2021-004.
... is a single element in adult fish, with a simple mandibular joint. Mandibular bones are not present. The gill region is of moderate length, covered with strongly developed elongate branchiostegal plates, sometimes with small subsidiary gill covers above the plates. Scales have smooth crowns. Tesserae...
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Journal Article
Published: 29 September 2021
Scottish Journal of Geology (2021) 57 (2): sjg2020-023.
...Benjamin H. Tindal; Anthony P. Shillito; Neil S. Davies Abstract Two newly discovered specimens of the fish locomotion trace Undichna ( U. britannica and Undichna isp.) are described from the Middle Devonian Achanarras Limestone Member (Caithness Flagstone Group, NE Scotland). Fish trace fossils...
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Journal Article
Published: 17 May 2021
Scottish Journal of Geology (2021) 57 (2): sjg2020-030.
... with recent division of the Rousay Formation into three further units based on characteristic fish fossils. The division of the Rousay Formation has enabled a map to be constructed of the solid geology of the island of Westray, Orkney, based on fish identification, detailed logging of sedimentary cycles...
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Published: 08 February 2021
Mineralogical Magazine (2021) 85 (1): 94–104.
...Jeremiah Shuster; Maria A.D. Rea; Bhanu Nidumolu; Anupama Kumar Abstract Golden perch ( Macquaria ambigua ) is a freshwater game-fish native to central and southeast Australia. Larvae of this fish species were used in two different types of experiments to evaluate the effects of short-term...
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Journal Article
Published: 14 October 2020
Geological Magazine (2021) 158 (6): 964–984.
... −2.4 tn19 yellow calcite −41.0 −5.9 tn20 sparry cement −49.6 −4.4 tn21 radiaxial cement −49.0 −4.8 Tan 1/2 micritic matrix, nodule −22.9 −12.4 Tan 2/2 micritic matrix, nodule −23.4 −12.6 The Tanohama seep deposit was found c. 700 m north of the fishing...
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Journal Article
Published: 24 August 2020
Scottish Journal of Geology (2021) 57 (1): sjg2020-006.
...Carole J. Burrow; Michael J. Newman; Jan L. den Blaauwen Abstract Vertebrate fossils are extremely rare below the Achanarras fish beds and equivalent strata in northern Scotland. Here we describe the cheiracanthid acanthodians from the lowest Middle Devonian of this region, comprising partial...
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Journal Article
Journal: Geology
Published: 31 July 2020
Geology (2020) 48 (12): 1164–1168.
..., favoring the precipitation of apatite over that of calcite. Laboratory experiments have suggested that phosphatization results from anoxic decay. Here we report results of the fine-scale mineralogical characterization of Cretaceous phosphatized fossils of teleost fishes and crustaceans from the Jebel oum...
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Published: 08 April 2020
Environmental & Engineering Geoscience (2020) 26 (3): 313–329.
... of Environmental and Engineering Geologists 2020 Hydrochemistry Groundwater Spring Aquatic Habitats Spatial and Temporal Geochemistry Endangered Fish Persistent aridity in the twenty-first century ( MacDonald, 2010 ) has caused available water in the semiarid southwestern United...
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Journal: Geology
Published: 27 March 2020
Geology (2020) 48 (6): 589–593.
... species with similar durability can differ in age within a single fossil assemblage. Here, we tested whether skeletal remains of different phyla and trophic guilds, the most abundant infaunal bivalve shells and nektobenthic fish otoliths, differed in radiocarbon age in surficial sediments along a depth...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 December 2019
South African Journal of Geology (2019) 122 (4): 571–582.
.... In the Kalahari Basin, the formation is only 25 to 50 m thick, due to post-Karoo erosion of its upper part. The Prince Albert Formation contains fossils of marine invertebrates, palaeoniscoid fish, sharks, sponge spicules, foraminiferans, radiolarians, acritarchs, fragments of wood and leaves, together...
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Journal Article
Published: 18 June 2019
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2019) 109 (4): 1556–1562.
...Yoshiaki Orihara; Masashi Kamogawa; Yoichi Noda; Toshiyasu Nagao Abstract In Japan, folklore says that uncommon appearances of deep‐sea fish are an earthquake precursor. If this folklore is proved to be true, the appearance of deep‐sea fish could be useful information for disaster mitigation...
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