Dineley, D. & Metcalf, S. GCR Editor: D. Palmer. 1999. Fossil Fishes of Great Britain. Geological Conservation Review Series No. 16. JNCC, Peterborough, ISBN 1 86107 470 0.

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Fossil fishes of Great Britain

Contents

Title page and preliminaries

Acknowledgements

Access to the countryside

Conserving our fossil heritage — JNCC Policy Statement

Preface

Museum abbreviations

1 British fossil fish and amphibian sites

Introduction

Amphibians

The geological background

Palaeontology

Classification

Fishes of the Palaeozoic Era

Fishes of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic

Taphonomy

Palaeoecology

Biostratigraphy

History of research

Palaeontological conservation

The choice and distribution of the GCR sites

Sites of British fossil amphibians

2 Silurian fossil fishes sites of Scotland

Introduction: Silurian palaeogeography and stratigraphy

Environments

Fish faunas

Fish sites

Comparison with the faunas of other regions

Birk Knowes

Dunside

Shiel Burn

Dippal Burn

Slot Burn

Birkenhead Burn

The Toutties

3 Late Silurian fossil fishes sites of the Welsh Borders

Introduction: Palaeogeography and stratigraphy

Environments

Fish faunas

Fish sites

Cwar Glas

Church Hill Quarry

Ludford Lane and Ludford Corner

Ledbury Cutting

Temeside, Ludlow

Tite's Point (Purton Passage)

Lydney

Downton Castle area: Downton Castle Bridge, Tin Mill Race, Forge Rough Weir and Castle Bridge Mill

Bradnor Hill Quarry

4 Early Devonian fossil fishes sites of the Welsh Borders

Introduction: Palaeogeography and stratigraphy

Environments

Fish faunas

Fish sites

Devil's Hole

Oak Dingle, Tugford

Cwm Mill

Wayne Herbert Quarry

Besom Farm Quarry

Hoel Senni Quarry

5 Early Devonian fossil fishes sites of Scotland

Introduction: Palaeogeography and stratigraphy

Environments

Fish faunas

Fish sites

Tillywhandland Quarry

Wolf's Hole Quarry

Whitehouse Den

6 Mid-Devonian fossil fishes sites of Scotland

Introduction: Palaeogeography and stratigraphy

Environments

Fish faunas

Fish sites

Westerdale Quarry

Cruaday Quarry

Black Park, Edderton

Den of Findon, Gamrie

Tynet Burn, Elgin

Melby

Papa Stour

Dipple Brae

Spinal Quarry

Holborn Head Quarry

Weydale Quarry

Pennyland

John o'Groats

The Cletts, Exnaboe

Sumburgh Head

7 Mid- and Late Devonian fossil fishes sites of England and Wales

Introduction: Palaeogeography and stratigraphy

Environments

Fish faunas

Fish sites

Bedruthan Steps

Mill Rock

Portishead

Prescott Corner

Comparison with other regions

8 Late Devonian fossil fishes sites of Scotland

Introduction: Palaeogeography and stratigraphy

Environments

Fish faunas

Fish sites

Oxendean Burn

Hawk's Heugh

Boghole, Muckle Burn

Scaat Craig

Comparison with other regions

9 British Carboniferous fossil fishes sites

Introduction: Palaeogeography and stratigraphy

Environments

Fish faunas

Fish sites

Foulden

Wardie

Glencartholm

Cheese Bay

Inchkeith

Steeplehouse Quarry

Bearsden

10 British Permian fossil fishes sites

Introduction: Palaeogeography and stratigraphy

Environments

Fish faunas

Fish sites

Middridge

Amphibian faunas and sites

11 British Triassic fossil fishes sites

Introduction: Palaeogeography and stratigraphy

Environments

Fish and amphibian faunas

Mid-Triassic of central and southern England

Fish and amphibian sites

Sidmouth

Late Triassic of central and South-West England

Fish sites

Vertebrate-bearing fissure deposits of South-West England

Fish sites

12 British Jurassic fossil fishes sites

Introduction: Palaeogeography and stratigraphy

Environments

Fish faunas

Early Jurassic or Lias

Fish sites

Lyme Regis coast (Pinhay Bay–Charmouth)

Blockley Station Quarry

Whitby coast (East Pier–Whitestone Point)

Mid-Jurassic or Dogger

Fish and tetrapod sites

Stonesfield

Kirtlington Old Cement Works Quarry

Watton Cliff

Late Jurassic or Malm

Fish and amphibian sites

Kimmeridge Bay (Gaulter Gap–Broad Bench)

Durlston Bay

13 British Cretaceous fossil fishes sites

Introduction: Palaeogeography and stratigraphy

Environments

Fish faunas

Early Cretaceous: Wealden Group (Berriasian–Barremian)

Fish sites

Hastings

Brook–Atherfield Point

Early ('Mid-') Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian)

Fish sites

East Wear Bay Late Cretaceous: the Chalk

Late Cretaceous: the Chalk

Fish sites

Blue Bell Hills Pits

Totternhoe (Chalk Quarry)

Southerham (Machine Bottom Pit)

Southerham Grey Pit

Southerham (Lime Kiln Quarries)

Boxford Chalk Pit

14 British Cenozoic fossil fishes sites

Introduction: Palaeogeography and stratigraphy

Environments

Fish faunas

Pre-London Clay Tertiaries of the London Basin

Fish sites

Pegwell Bay

Herne Bay

Upnor

London Clay Formation

Fish sites

Bognor Regis

Maylandsea

Sheppey

Burnham-on-Crouch

Late Palaeogene of the Hampshire Basin

Fish sites

Bracklesham Bay

Lee-on-Solent

Hordle Cliff

King's Quay

15 Sites for British stem Tetrapoda and Amphibia

Introduction

Classification and evolution

Stem tetrapods and amphibians in the British palaeontological record

East Kirkton, Bathgate

Headon Hill

References

Glossary

Index

Figures and tables

Tables

References