- Shale.
Within the Old Red
Sandstone continent, it is
represented by the
Achanarras lake, the
deepest and most
widespread lake that
developed within the Orcadian...
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Achanarella is a
genus of
extinct jawless fish from the
Achanarras Quarry in Scotland,
dating to the
Middle Devonian. The only
known species in the genus...
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prehistoric fish, a
fossil vertebrate. Its
fossils are
described from the
Achanarras slate quarry in Caithness, Scotland. The
fossil as
preserved is carbonized...
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Orcadian Basin. It is only
present at and
below the
Upper Eifelian Achanarras limestone level. List of
placoderms Dean,
Bashford (1895). Fishes, living...
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single very deep and
particularly thick and
extensive lake interval, the
Achanarras Fish Bed Member. The lake at this time
covered an area of at
least 50...
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described by
Lyall Anderson and
colleagues in 2000, from the mid-Devonian
Achanarras quarry in Caithness, Scotland, a site rich in fish fossils. Well preserved...
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Lyall I. (2000-11-01). "A
Middle Devonian chasmataspid arthropod from
Achanarras Quarry, Caithness, Scotland".
Scottish Journal of Geology. 36 (2): 151–158...
- Area of Search. For
other areas, see List of
SSSIs by Area of Search.
Achanarras Quarry Banniskirk Quarry Beinn Freiceadain and Ben
Dorrery Berriedale...
- Pterichthyodes. Palaeobiol. 6, 25–29. 1937. The
Middle Devonian fish
fauna of
Achanarras. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb. 59, pt. 1, no. 7, 223–239. The red-bar anthias...
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flagstones sequences are
divided by the
Sandwick fish bed,
equivalent to the
Achanarras formation of Caithness,
representing an
unusually persistent, deep and...
