Type Specimens of Fossil Fishes: Catalogue of the University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology...

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John Clay Bruner

Type Specimens of Fossil Fishes

Catalogue of the University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology

John Clay Bruner

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CRC Press
24 January 2019

Fishes (ichthyology); Palaeontology

"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.

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 Includes information on unpublished ""types"" - type specimens of not yet described new species."

By: John Clay Bruner
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 335g
ISBN: 9780367026424
ISBN 10: 0367026422
Pages: 166
Publication Date: 24 January 2019
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Individual entries are arranged taxonomically and alphabetically

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