GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSE2127 – 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. GSE2127
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. No Parent Sample Number given.
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.,fig1 Text-figs 2 & 5

Waterston Oelopen & Oosthuzen 1985 Trans Roy Soc Edinburgh Vol 76 p.339-358 Fig 7
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