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Fossil specimen : BGS GSE2144 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Merostomata

      Order Eurypterida

Fossil Name Cyrtoctenus peachi Stormer & Waterston
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Cyrtoctenus peachi Stormer & Waterston

Provenance
Registration No. GSE2144
Collector No name given.
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Calciferous Sandstone Series. 1" 26. (Note: there is CS in same sample box with 2144/2 on it).
Location
Country Scotland
Locality Lennel Braes - Tweedmill - Coldstream - Berwickshire.
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Strathclyde Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Brigantian Substage (Carboniferous Period) – Chadian Substage (Carboniferous Period) (329 – 346.7 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Visean Age – Tournaisian Age ]

References
References

Stormer & Waterston 1968 Proc Roy Soc Edinburgh Vol 68 Part 4 pliii.,figs5,9,10,12

Available Images

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/BGS/P818937.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P819396.JP2

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