Brian George Gardiner PPLS (30 October 1932 – 21 January 2021)[1] was a British palaeontologist and zoologist, specialising in the study of fossil fish (palaeoichthyology).
He was educated at Marling School, Stroud and then took a first degree in zoology at Imperial College London, where he specialised in entomology.
[3][4] In 1969, Gardiner described seven new genera and species of palaeoniscid fish from the Witteberg Series in South Africa.
His research interests were in the anatomy, taxonomy and evolution of fish, particularly actinopterygians, including Devonian palaeoniscids.
Gardiner named seven genera of Carboniferous ray-finned fish, Australichthys, Aestuarichthys, Willomorichthys, Sundayichthys, Dwykia, Adroichthys and Soetendalichthys (=Aestuarichthys),[5][7] and two genera of Triassic ray-finned fish, Albertonia[4] and Endemichthys.