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Fossil specimen : NMS NMS G.1891.92.100 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Merostomata

      Order Eurypterida

Fossil Name Pterygotus minor Woodward
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Pterygotus minor Woodward

Provenance
Registration No. NMS G.1891.92.100
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By National Museums of Scotland
Comments part of NMS G.1963.15.92
Location
Country Scotland
Locality Farnell, Angus
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lower Old Red Sandstone
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Devonian Period (Devonian Period) (358.9 – 419.2 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Woodward, H., 1864. Geol. Mag., vol. I, p. 199 Pl. X, fig. 2

Available Images

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