Waterstonella grantonensis is a species of fossil crustacean so distinct from other crustaceans that it has been placed in its own genus, Waterstonella, family, Waterstonellidae, and order, Waterstonellidea.[2] It is named after Charles Waterstone, keeper of geology at the Royal Scottish Museum,[1] while the specific epithet commemorates the location where the fossil was found, the Granton shrimp beds, near Edinburgh.[3]
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| Order: | Waterstonellidea Schram, 1981
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| Family: | Waterstonellidae Schram, 1979
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| Genus: | Waterstonella Schram, 1979
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| Species: | W. grantonensis
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| Waterstonella grantonensis | |
References
edit- ^ a b Frederick Schram (1979). "British Carboniferous Malacostraca". Fieldiana Geology. 40.
- ^ Patrick J. Orr & Derek E. G. Briggs (1999). Exceptionally preserved conchostracans and other crustaceans from the Upper Carboniferous of Ireland. Special papers in palaeontology. Vol. 62. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-901702-68-5.
- ^ E. N. K. Clarkson (1985). "Carboniferous crustaceans". Geology Today. 1 (1): 11–15. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2451.1985.tb00277.x.
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