TY - DATA T1 - Arthur Smith Woodward's fossil fish type specimens PY - 2016/11/15 AU - Emma Louise Bernard AU - Mike Smith UR - https://geolsoc.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Arthur_Smith_Woodward_s_fossil_fish_type_specimens/3454097 DO - 10.6084/m9.figshare.3454097.v2 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/6904628 KW - Arthur Smith Woodward KW - Natural History Museum KW - British Museum KW - access KW - image KW - species KW - anyone KW - Natural History Department KW - type specimens KW - fish type specimens KW - achievement KW - 80. KW - palaeoichthyologist KW - taxonomic paper KW - Geology N2 - 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. ER -