Abstract
One of the first authors to note the Ardross fauna was the Rev. T. Brown (1861, pp. 394–5), who “detected small scales of some species of Palaeoniscus, and a good specimen of an Amblypterus, which seemed to be the A. striatus. There were teeth and scales also of a Holoptychius; and their resemblance to the figure of the H. portlocki … seemed to be complete”.The fauna was summarized by Peach (1902, pp. 357–375), who, in addition to two plants, four arthropods, five brachiopods, and six lamellibranchs, gave the following list of fishes:—