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Fossil specimen : BGS GSM30193Cprt – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Merostomata

      Order Eurypterida

Fossil Name Anthraconectes (Eurypterus) moyseyi (Woodward H)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Anthraconectes (Eurypterus) moyseyi (Woodward H)

Lepidoderma

Provenance
Registration No. GSM30193Cprt
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Moysey, Dr L. 1917
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Coal Measures - Top Modiolaris Zone - Clay Ironstone below Top Hard Coal. (Note: there are casts with these specimens - GSM 30192 & 30193 Cprt).
Location
Country England
Locality Shipley Clay Pit - Ilkeston - Derbys.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Coal Measures Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Westphalian Stage (Carboniferous Period) (308 – 319 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Moscovian Age – Bashkirian Age ]

References
References

Kjellesvig-Waering 1948 Scientific Papers Vol III No 4 p.14-17

Wills 1964 Palaeontology Vol 7 p.506

Woodward H 1907 Geo Mag Dec V Vol IV p.279 plxiii.,fig1

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