Arthur Smith Woodward's fossil fish type specimens
Emma Louise Bernard
Mike Smith
10.6084/m9.figshare.3454097.v4
https://geolsoc.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Arthur_Smith_Woodward_s_fossil_fish_type_specimens/3454097
<p>Four years after joining the Natural History Department of the British Museum in 1882, Arthur Smith Woodward published his
first taxonomic paper erecting three new species based on sharks’ teeth. He retired from the Natural History Museum in 1924
but continued to publish until his death in 1944 at the age of 80. In total he named 321 new fossil fishes, a remarkable achievement,
marking him out as the most influential palaeoichthyologist of his time. For the first time brief details of all his type
specimens are brought together, accompanied in many cases by high-quality photographic images, in an online format readily
available to anyone with access to the Internet.
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