Articulated thelodonts (Agnatha) of Scotland

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 143-195

  Marss T ^a   Ritchie, A ^b  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Morphology; Palaeozoic agnathans (thelodonts); Squamation

Indexed keywords

AGNATHA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALAEOZOIC; THELODONTS;

UK, SCOTLAND;

EID: 0031748370     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s026359330000691x     Document Type: Article

References (74)

1. Agassiz, L. In Murchison, R. I. 1838. On the fishes in the Ludlow rocks, or upper Beds of the Silurian System. Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Liverpool, 1837, 7th Trans., p. 91.
2. Aldridge, R. J. & Turner, S. 1975. Britain's oldest agnathans. Geological Magazine, 112, 419-20.
3. Allen, J. R. L., Halstead (Tarlo), L. B. & Turner, S. 1968. Dittonian ostracoderm fauna from the Brownstones of Wilderness Quarry, Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, 1649, 141-53.
4. Blieck, A., Goujet, D., Janvier, P. & Meilliez, F. 1995. Revised Upper Silurian-Lower Devonian ichthyostratigraphy of northern France and southern Belgium (Artois-Ardenne). Bulletin du Museum Nationale D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 17, 447-59.
5. Fredholm, D. 1988. Vertebrates in the Ludlovian Hemse Beds of Gotland, Sweden. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 110, 157-79.
6. Fredholm, D. 1990. Agnathan vertebrates in the Lower Silurian of Gotland, Sweden. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Föhandlingar, 112, 61-84.
7. Gross, W. 1967. Über Thelodontier-Schuppen. Palaeontographica, 127A, 1-67.
8. Janvier, Ph. 1981. The phylogeny of the Craniata, with particular reference to the significance of fossil 'agnathans'. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1, 121-59.
9. Jarvik, E. 1959. Dermal fin-rays and Holmgren's principle of delamination. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, 6, 1-49.
10. Karatajute-Talimaa, V. 1978. Telodonty silura i devoua SSSR i Spitsbergena. Vilnius: Mokslas.
11. Karatajute-Talimaa, V. 1997. Taxonomy of loganiid thelodonts. Modern Geology, 21, pp. 1-15.
12. Karatajute-Talimaa, V. & Brazauskas, A. 1995. Distribution of vertebrates in the Silurian of Lithuania. Geologija, 17, 106-14.
13. Lankester, E. R. 1870. A Monograph of the Fishes of the Old Red Sandstone of Britain. Pt. 1. Cephalaspidae. Palaeontographical Society, London, 1-62.
14. Lehman, J.-P. 1937. Les poissons du Downtonien de la Scanie (Suède). Mémoires de la Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de Paris, Rennes, 1-98.
15. Märss, T. 1982. Vertebrate zones in the East Baltic Silurian. In Kaljo, D. & Klaamann, E. (eds) Ecostratigraphy of the East Baltic Silurian, 97-105. Tallinn: Valgus.
16. Märss, T. 1986a. Squamation of the thelodont agnathan Phlebolepis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 6, 1-11.
17. Märss, T. 1986b. Silurian vertebrates of Estonia and West Latvia. Tallinn: Valgus.
18. Märss, T. 1989. Vertebrates. In Holland, C. H. & Bassett, M. G. (eds) A global standard for the Silurian System. 284-9. National Museum of Wales, Geological Series 9, Cardiff.
19. Märss, T. 1990. Vertebrates. In Kaljo, D. & Nestor, H. (eds) Field Meeting. Estonia 1990. An Excursion Guidebook, 93-6. Tallinn: Estonian Academy of Sciences.
20. Märss, T. 1996. Loganellia (Thelodonti, Agnatha) from the Jaagarahu Stage, Wenlock, Estonia. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Science, Geology, 45, 189-202.
21. Märss, T., Männik, P., Martma, T., Wilson, M., Caldwell, M., Gagnier, P.-Y., Goujet, D. & Thorsteinsson, R. 1997. Distribution of Silurian vertebrate microremains in the Baillie Hamilton and Cornwallis Island sections, Arctic Canada. In Wilson, M. (ed.) Circum-Arctic Palaeozoic Vertebrates: Biological and Geological Significance. Buckow, Germany, July 4-6, 1997. Ichthyolith Issues. Special Publications, 2, 20-2.
22. Märss, T. & Ritchie, A. 1994. On the Loganellia taiti Zone. In IUGS Subcommission on the Silurian Stratigraphy. Field Meeting. Eastern and southern Alps, Austria. 1994. Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, 30, 144-5.
23. Matukhin, R. G., Abushik, A. F., Valiukevicius, J. J., Karatajute-Talimaa, V. N., Kurik, E. J., Kurss, V. M., Markovskyi, V. A., Menner, V. V., Modzalevskaya, T. L., Samoilovich, J. G., Smirnova, M. A., Cherkesova, S. V. 1982. Pogranichnye tolshshi i granitsa silura i devona na Severnoyi Zemli. In Granitsy krupnykh podrazdelenyi fanerozoya Sibiri, 77-95.
24. Nelson, G. J. 1970. Pharyngeal denticles (Placoid scales) of sharks, with notes on the dermal skeleton of vertebrates. American Museum Novitates, 2415, 1-26.
25. Obruchev, D. V. 1949. Tip Vertebrata Pozvonochnye. Allas rukovodyashshikh form iskopaemykh faun SSSR. Sihiriyskaya sistema, 2, 316-28.
26. Obruchev, D. 1964. Beschelyustnye i ryby. Osnovy Paleontologii, 11, (Moscow: Nauka.)
27. Oervig, T. 1968. The dermal skeleton; general considerations. In Oervig, T. (ed.) Current problems of lower vertebrate phylogeny, 373-97. Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell.
28. Powrie, J. 1870. On the earliest known vestiges of vertebrate life; being a description of the fish remains of the Old Red Sandstone of Forfarshire. Transactions of the Geological Society of Edinburgh 1, 284-301.
29. Reif, W.-E. 1985. Squamation and Ecology of Sharks. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 78, 1-255.
30. Ritchie, A. 1963. Palaeontological studies on Scottish Silurian Fish-Beds. Unpubl. PhD Thesis, Univ. of Edinburgh.
31. Ritchie, A. 1968a. New evidence on Jamoytius kerwoodi White, an important ostracoderm from the Silurian of Lanarkshire, Scotland. Palaeontology, 11, 21-39.
32. Ritchie, A. 1968b. Phlebotepis elegans, an Upper Silurian thelodont from Oesel, with remarks on the morphology of thelodonts. In Oervig, T. (ed.) Current problems of lower vertebrate phylogeny. 4th Nobel Symposium, 81-8, Stockholm.
33. Ritchie, A. 1985. Ainiktozoon loganense Scourfield, a protochordate? from the Silurian of Scotland. Alcheringa, 9, 117-42.
34. Robertson, G. 1986. North Esk inlier. In McAdam, D. & Clarkson, E. N. K. (eds) Lothian geology, 174-85. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press.
35. Robertson, G. 1989. A palaeoenvironmental interpretation of the Silurian rocks in the Pentland Hills, near Edinburgh. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 80, 127-41.
36. Rolfe, W. D. I. 1962. The geology of the Hagshaw Hills Silurian inlier, Lanarkshire. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, 18, 240-69.
37. Rolfe, W. D. I. 1973a. Excursion 14: The Hagshaw Hills Silurian inlier. In Bluck, B. J. (ed.) Excursion guide to the geology of the Glasgow district, 105-19. Glasgow: The University Press.
38. Rolfe, W. D. I. 1973b. Excursion 15: Silurian arthropod and fish assemblages from Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire. In Bluck, B. J. (ed.) Excursion guide to the geology of the Glasgow district, 119-26. Glasgow: The University Press.
39. Rolfe, W. D. I. 1992a. Excursion 21. Hagshaw Hills. In Lawson, J. D. & Weedon, D. S. (eds) Geological excursions around Glasgow and Girvan, 265-79. Glasgow: The Geological Society of Glasgow.
40. Rolfe, W. D. I. 1992b. Excursion 22. Lesmahagow. In Lawson, J. D. & Weedon, D. S. (eds) Geological excursions around Glasgow and Girvan, 280-7. Glasgow: The Geological Society of Glasgow.
41. Simpson, L. R. 1988. The anatomy of Silurian fossil fish from the Lesmahagow District, Scotland. Unpubl. PhD Thesis, Univ. of Edinburgh.
42. Stensiö, E. A. 1958. Les Cyclostomes fossiles ou Ostracodermes. In P.-P. Grasse (ed.) Traité de Zoologie. Paris, 13, 173-425.
43. Stensiö, E. A. 1964. Les Cyclostomes fossiles ou Ostracodermes. In Piveteau, J. (ed.) Traité de Paleontologie. Paris, 4, 96-385.
44. Stetson, H. C. 1931. Studies on the morphology of the Heterostraci. Journal of Geology, 39, 141-54.
45. Talimaa, V. N. & Melnikov, S. V. 1987. Vypiska iz resheniya kollokviuma na temu: 'Znachenye pozvonochnykh dlya obosnovaniya unifitsirovannoy i korrelyatsionnoy stratigraficheskikh skhem Devona Timano-Petchorskogo subregiona'. In Kaljo, D. (ed.) Resheniya Mezhvedomstvennogo stratigraficheskogo soveshshaniya po ordoviku i siluru Vostochno-Evropeyskoy platformy 1984 g. Leningrad, 13-16.
46. Traquair, R. H. 1896. The extinct vertebrate animals of the Moray Firth area. In Harvie-Brown, J. H. & Buckley, D. E. (eds) A vertebrate fauna of the Moray Basin, 235-85. Edinburgh.
47. Traquair, R. H. 1898. Report on fossil fishes. Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom for 1897, 72-6.
48. Traquair, R. H. 1899a. On Thelodus pagei Powrie, sp. from the Old Red Sandstone of Forfarshire. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 39, 595-602.
49. Traquair, R. H. 1899b. Report on fossil fishes collected by the Geological Survey of Scotland in the Silurian Rocks of the South of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 39, 827-64.
50. Traquair, R. H. 1900. The bearings of fossil ichthyology on the problem of evolution. (Address to Zool. sectn. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci.) Geological Magazine, 7, 463-70.
51. Traquair, R. H. 1901. Note on the fossil fishes from the Silurian rocks of the Lesmahagow District. Memoir of the Geological Survey of the U.K. Summ. Prog. for 1900, 175-6.
52. Traquair, R. H. 1905. Supplementary report on fossil fishes collected by the Geological Survey of Scotland in Upper Silurian rocks of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 40, 879-88.
53. Turner, P. & Turner, S. 1974. Thelodonts from the Upper Silurian of Ringerike, Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tiddskrift, 54, 182-92.
54. Turner, S. 1970. Fish help to trace continental movements. Spectrum, Bulletin of the Center for Official Information, 79, 8-10.
55. Turner, S. 1973. Siluro-Devonian thelodonts from the Welsh Borderland. Journal of the Geological Society, 129, 557-84.
56. Turner, S. 1976. Thelodonti (Agnatha). In Westphal, F. (ed.) Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia, Pars 122.
57. Turner, S. 1982. A new articulated thelodont (Agnatha) from the Early Devonian of Britain. Palaeontology, 25, 879-89.
58. Turner, S. 1984. Studies on Palaeozoic Thelodonti (Craniata: Agnatha). Unpubl. PhD Thesis, Univ. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
59. Turner, S. 1986. Thelodus macintoshi Stetson 1928, the largest known thelodont (Agnatha:Thelodonti). Breviora, 486, 1-18.
60. Turner, S. 1991. Monophyly and interrelationships of the Thelodonti. In Chang Mee-mann, Liu Yu-hai & Zhang Guo-rui (eds) Early vertebrates and related problems of evolutionary biology, 87-119. Beijing: Science Press.
61. Turner, S. 1992. Thelodont lifestyles. In Kurik, E. (ed.) Fossil fishes as living animals. Academia, 1, 21-40. Tallinn: Academy of Sciences of Estonia.
62. Turner, S. & Nowlan, G. S. 1995. Early Silurian microvertebrates of eastern Canada. Bulletin du Museum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 17, 513-29.
63. Turner, S. & Peel, J. S. 1986. Silurian thelodont scales from North Greenland. Rapport Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse, 132, 79-88.
64. Turner, S., Aldridge, R. J., Jones, G. L. & Harper, D. A. T. 1994. The Llandovery microvertebrates from the Kilbridge Formation, Co. Galway, western Ireland. Annual Irish Geology Research Meeting, 25th-27th February, 1994. Abstracts.
65. Turner, A. & van der Brugghen, W. 1993. The Thelodonti, an important but enigmatic group of Palaeozoic fishes. Modern Geology, 18, 1-29.
66. Valiukevicius, J., Gladkovskiy, V. T., Karatajute-Talimaa, V. N., Kurshs, V., Melnikov, S. V. & Menner, V. V. 1983. Stratigrafiya silura i nizhnego devona Severnogo Timana. Seriya Geologicheskaya, 10, 53-64.
67. van der Brugghen, W. 1993. Thelodonten binnenste buiten gekeerd. Grondboor en Hamer, 3, 88-91.
68. van der Brugghen, W. 1994. Over magen en staarten van thelodonten. Grondboor en Hamer, 415, 87-93.
69. van der Brugghen, W. & Janvier, P. 1993. Denticles in thelodonts. Nature, 364, 107.
70. Vergoossen, J. M. J. 1992. On complex dermal elements in Loganellia species (Agnatha, Thelodonti) from the Upper Llandovery of Scotland. Geologie en Mijnbouw, 71, 51-64.
71. Walton, E. K. & Oliver, G. J. H. 1991. Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy. In Craig, G. Y. (ed.) Geology of Scotland (3rd edn), 161-93. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press.
72. Wellmann, C. H. & Richardson, J. B. 1993. Terrestrial plant microfossils from Silurian inliers of the Midland Valley of Scotland. Palaeontology, 36, 155-93.
73. Westoll, T. S. 1945. A new Cephalaspid fish from the Downtonian of Scotland, with notes on the structure and classification of Ostracoderms. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 61, 341-57.
74. Wilson, M. V. H., Soehn, K. L., Hanke, G. F. and Märss, T. 1997. Preliminary vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Silurian Avalanche Lake sections, Mackenzie Mountains, Canada. In Wilson, M. (ed.) Circum-Arctic Palaeozoic Vertebrates: Biological and Geological Significance. Buckow, Germany, July 4-6, 1997. Ichthyolith Issues. Special Publications, 2, 26-7.