Type Specimens of Fossil Fishes

ISBN-13: 9781032653624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 178 str.

John Clay Bruner

Opis

The Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Allberta houses type specimens of fossil fishes. This book is a catalogue of these specimens. Included for each entry is taxonomy, detailed collection locality information, the citation wherein the species was originally described, and a list of individual type specimens. This is the first list ever compiled of the fossil fish types deposited in the collections of the University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology (UALVP). This collection contains 88 fish holotypes, 966 fish paratypes, 55 casts of fish holotypes from other museums, and 20 casts of fish paratypes from other museums.

 

Key selling features:

• List all of the type specimens of fossil fishes currently housed in the collection of the Laboratory of Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.



• Provides details of all 88 holotypes and nearly 1000 paratypes as well as casts of types specimens held in other museum collections.



• Includes information on unpublished "types" - type specimens of not yet described new species.

The Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Allberta houses type specimens of fossil fishes. This book is a catalogue of these specimens. Included for each entry is taxonomy, detailed collection locality information, the citation wherein the species was originally described, and a list of individual type specimens.

Spis treści

Individual entries are arranged taxonomically and alphabetically

O autorze

John Clay Bruner is based at the Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.