Waterstonella
Extinct genus of crustaceans
Waterstonella Temporal range: Lower Carboniferous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Order: | Waterstonellidea Schram, 1981 |
Family: | Waterstonellidae Schram, 1979 |
Genus: | Waterstonella Schram, 1979 |
Species: | W. grantonensis |
Binomial name | |
Waterstonella grantonensis Schram, 1979 [1] |
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]
References
- ^ 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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