


Hunterian Museum
Orcadian fish from the Devonian of Scotland
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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