Waterstonella

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Waterstonella
Temporal range: Lower Carboniferous
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

  1. 1 2 Frederick Schram (1979). "British Carboniferous Malacostraca". Fieldiana Geology. 40.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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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