80 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



XII. Notes on the Lower Carhoniferous Fishes of Eastern 

 Fifeshire. By Dr R. H, Traquair, F.R.S., F.G.S. 

 [Plate v.] 



(Rpad 16th January 1901; appeared without figures in the Geological 

 Magazine for March 1901, pp. 110-114.) 



Not much has as yet been done in the way of cataloguing 

 the fossil fishes of the Lower Carboniferous rocks of Eastern 

 Fifeshire. A few species and localities were noted by the 

 late Rev. Thomas Brown in 1860/ and by Mr Kirkby in 

 1880,2 and the late Mr Robert Walker published a paper 

 in 1872,^ in which he described what he supposed to be 

 a new species of Amhlypterus {A. anconooechmodus) from the 

 oil-shale works at Pitcorthie, near Anstruther. In this 

 paper Mr Walker drew attention to the abundance and 

 variety of fish-remains in the oil-shale and ironstone worked 

 at that locality, promising to describe them in detail after- 

 wards — a promise which he was never able to fulfil. After 

 his death in 1881, his important collection of fish-remains 

 from this and other localities in East Fife was acquired by 

 the Edinburgh Museum, and largely forms the basis of the 

 present list. I myself have also done some collecting in this 

 region; and a good many years ago the Museum acquired 

 a number of specimens collected by Mr W. T. Kinnear 

 at Ardross, some of which are of great interest. 



The district in question is comprised in Sheets 41 and 

 49 of the Geological Survey Map of Scotland. All the 

 species here noted are from Lower Carboniferous rocks, the 

 horizons represented being the Upper part (oil-shale group) 

 , and the Lower part of the Carboniferous Limestone Series. 

 Here I may note that in 1890 ^ I included the Teleostomi 



^ "Notes on the Mountain Limestone and Lower Carboniferous Rocks of 

 the Fifeshire Coast, from Burntisland to St Andrews," Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 Edin., vol. xxii. (1860) pp 385-404. 



2 "On the Zones of Marine Fossils in the Calciferou.s Sandstones of Fife," 

 Quart. Jour. Geol. Sac, vol. xxxvi. (1880) pp. 559-590. 



3 ' On a New Species of Amhlypterus and other Fossil Fish-remains from 

 Pitcorthy, Fife," Trans. Geol. Soc. Edin., vol. ii., part i., pp. 119-124. 

 With Plate. 



^ "List of the Fossil Ganoidei and Dipnoi of Fife and the Lothians," 

 Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xvii. (1890) pp. 385-400. 



