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ALTHOUGH works containing notices of fossil fishes had appeared on the Continent as early as the fifteenth century, the earliest work descriptive of their occurrence in Scotland was Ure's “History of Rutherglen and East Kilbride,” which was published in 1793, in which, among other Carboniferous fossils, several relics of the fishes of that epoch were figured. These are mostly the teeth of Selackii, or sharks, but one of them is a portion of the mandible of the gigantic ganoid fish now known as Rhhodus Hibberti. It was not, however, until the end of the third and commencement of the fourth decades of the present century that the palæichthyological treasures of the country began to attract any real attention.
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History of Research among the Fossil Fishes of Scotland 1 . Nature 21, 428–431 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021428a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/021428a0