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Paleont.,69(3), 1995, pp. 602-603 Copyright? 1995, The PaleontologicalSociety 0022-3360/95/0069-0602$03.00 TRANSFER OF THE HUXLEY AND WRIGHT (1867) CARBONIFEROUSAMPHIBIAN AND FISH MATERIAL TO TRINITY COLLEGEDUBLIN FROM THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND PATRICK N. WYSE JACKSON ANDNIGEL T. MONAGHAN Departmentof Geology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Irelandand National Museum of Ireland,Kildare Street, Dublin 2, Ireland IN 1867 Thomas H. Huxley and E. P. Wright described a col- AMPHIBIANS lection of Carboniferous amphibians from Jarrow Colliery, County Kilkenny, Ireland, which had been discovered three Dendrerpeton rugosum (Huxley); TCD.T84 (Ex NMING: years earlier by W. B. Brownrigg (1865). The fauna is significant F14686) [HOLOTYPE]; in that it was the first such assemblage of coal-swamp amphib- Huxley and Wright, 1867, p. 368, P1. 23, fig. 2 as Erpetoce- ians to be described, and allowed correct interpretation of the phalus rugosus. earlier discovered Linton, Ohio, fauna (A. R. Milner, 1980). A. R. Milner, 1980, p. 126, text-fig. la, lb, 3. The majority of the Jarrow specimens (24 in total) were placed Dolichosoma emersoni Huxley; TCD.T86 (Ex NMING:F 14687) in the Geological Museum of Trinity College, Dublin, where [HOLOTYPE]; they remained until 1959. In that year Dr. John Jackson ar- Huxley and Wright, 1867, p. 366, P1. 21, fig. 3. ranged for the transfer of this material, together with six fish Dolichosoma emersoni Huxley; TCD.38350 (Ex NMING: specimens, to the National Museum of Ireland for safekeeping F14688). as the future of the Geological Museum in Trinity College at Probably from Jarrow Colliery. that time was uncertain. Shortly afterwards, however, the Trin- Ichthyerpeton bradleyae Huxley; TCD.T87 (Ex NMING:F14689) ity College collections were placed under the care of a Curator, [HOLOTYPE]; and the museum continued to function as a repository for im- Huxley and Wright, 1867, p. 367, PI. 23, fig. 1. portant collections. A. R. Milner, 1980, p. 135. In 1994 the Jarrow material was returned to its original home, Ichthyerpeton bradleyae Huxley; TCD.38351 (Ex NMING: where it will still be available for research. Most specimens have F14690). been reallocated their original accession numbers (TCD.); those Probably from Jarrow Colliery. that remained uncatalogued in 1959 have been allocated new Keraterpeton galvani Huxley; TCD. F70 (Ex NMING:F14694); accession numbers (TCD.38350-38369). Huxley and Wright, 1867, p. 354, P1. 19, figs. 2-4. [FIG- This note records the transfer of this important vertebrate URED]. material, which has been intensively studied by recent students Keraterpeton galvani Huxley; TCD. R252 (Ex NMING:F14695); of early amphibians (Bossey, 1976; A. C. Milner, 1978, 1980; Steen, 1938, p. 219 [REFERRED]. A. R. Milner, 1980), and details the specimens involved. A Keraterpeton galvani Huxley; TCD.38352 (Ex NMING:F14696). longer paper on the history of the Jarrow material and its present Lepterpeton dobbsii Huxley; TCD.T85 (Ex NMING:F14685) location in various institutions is in preparation. All specimens [HOLOTYPE]; are from the Westphalian, Upper Carboniferous of Jarrow col- Wright and Huxley, 1866, p. 169. liery, Clogh, County Kilkenny, Ireland, unless otherwise stated. Huxley and Wright, 1867, p. 362, PI. 21, figs. 1, 2. PALEONTOLOGICAL NOTES 603 Ophiderpeton brownriggii Huxley; TCD.T88 (Ex NMING: Palaeoniscid scales; TCD.38367 (Ex NMING:F14707). F14683) [SYNTYPE]; Probably from Jarrow Colliery. Huxley and Wright, 1867, p. 364, P1. 22, fig. 4. Palaeoniscid? TCD.38368 (Ex NMING:F14710). Ophiderpeton brownriggii Huxley; TCD.T89 (Ex NMING: Probably from Jarrow Colliery. F14681) [SYNTYPE]; Indeterminate fish; TCD.38369 (Ex NMING:F14709). Huxley and Wright, 1867, p. 364, P1. 22, figs. 1, 2. Probably from Jarrow Colliery. Ophiderpeton brownriggii Huxley; TCD.T90 (Ex NMING: REFERENCES F14682) [SYNTYPE]; Huxley and Wright, 1867, p. 364, P1. 22, fig. 3. BossEY,K. V. H. 1976. Morphology,paleoecology and evolutionary Ophiderpeton brownriggii Huxley; TCD.38353 (Ex NMING: relationshipsof the Pennsylvanianurocordylid nectrideans (subclass F14684); Lepospondyli,class Amphibia).Unpubl. Ph.D. thesis, Yale Univer- New Connecticut.493 Westphalian Stage, Upper Carboniferous; County Laois, Ire- sity, Haven, p. land. BROWNRIGG,W. B. 1865. Notes on part of the Leinster Coal Field, with a record of some fossils therein. Journal of the now one with no label. Royal Geological Specimen unidentifiable; possibly of Ireland, 1:145-147. TCD.T83 NMING: Society Urocordylus wandesfordii Huxley; (Ex HUXLEY,T. H. 1867. Description of the vertebrate remains from the F14691) [TYPE]; Jarrow Colliery, p. 353-369. In T. H. Huxley and E. P. Wright, On Huxley and Wright, 1867, p. 362, P1. 20, fig. 1. a Collection of Fossil Vertebrata, from the Jarrow Colliery, County Urocordylus wandesfordii Huxley; TCD.38354 (Ex NMING: of Kilkenny, Ireland. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 24. F14692). MILNER,A. C. 1978. Carboniferous Keraterpetonidae and Scinco- Urocordylus wandesfordii Huxley; TCD.38355 (Ex NMING: sauridae (Nectridea: Amphibia)-a review. Unpubl. Ph.D. thesis, of Newcastle 339 F14693). University upon Tyne, p. Unidentified TCD.38356 1980. A review of the Nectridea (Amphibia), p. 377-405. In A. amphibian; (Ex NMING:F14701). L. Panchen The Terrestrial Environment and the of Land Unidentified TCD.38357 (ed.), Origin amphibians; (Ex NMING:F14698); Vertebrates. Systematics Association Special Volume 15, Academic TCD.38358 (Ex NMING:F14699) [specimen unidentifia- Press, London and New York. ble]; TCD.38359 (Ex NMING:F14700); TCD.38360 (Ex MILNER,A. R. 1980. The temnospondyl amphibian Dendrerpeton NMING:F14702); TCD.38361 (Ex NMING:F14703); from the Upper Carboniferous of Ireland. Palaeontology, 23:125-141. TCD.38362 (Ex NMING:F14704); TCD.38363 (Ex STEEN,M. C. 1938. On the fossil Amphibia from the Gas Coal of NMING:F14705). Nyrany and other deposits in Czechoslovakia. Proceedings of the Probably from Jarrow Colliery. Zoological Society of London B, 108:205-284. WRIGHT,E. P. 1867. Introduction, p. 351-353. In T. H. Huxley and FISH E. P. Wright, On a Collection of Fossil Vertebrata, from the Jarrow Colliery, County of Kilkenny, Ireland. Transactions of the Royal Irish Campylopleuron sp.; TCD.38364 (Ex NMING:F14708); 24. 353 Academy, Wright, 1867, p. (as gen. nov.) [REFERRED]. - , AND T. H. HUXLEY. 1866. On a collection of fossils from the Molgophis sp.; TCD.38365 (Ex NMING:F14697). Jarrow Colliery, Kilkenny, with a description of the vertebrate re- Probably from Jarrow Colliery. mains. Geological Magazine, 3:165-171. TCD.38366 Rhizodopsis sp.; (Ex NMING:F14706). ACCEPTED3 JUNE 1994 Probably from Jarrow Colliery. .