GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BRSUG 9958 – Paratype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Merostomata

      Order Eurypterida
Fossil Name Drepanopterus abonensis Simpson 1951
Type Status Paratype
Name History

Drepanopterus abonensis Simpson 1951
Provenance
Registration No. 9958
Collector Fry, T.R.
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By University of Bristol Geology Collection
Comments prosoma (head) with one well-preserved eye (comments by Tetlie)
Location
Country England
Locality Woodhill Bay, Portishead, Nr. Bristol
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Upper Old Red Sandstone, Portishead Beds, immediately above fish bed (Bed 10) in Woodhill Bay sequence.
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

Simpson, S. 1951, A new Eurypterid from the Upper Old Red Sandstone of Portishead. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12th Series vol. 4 no. 45, pp. 850-861

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