| Waterstonella Temporal range: Lower Carboniferous Preκ κ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Order: | Waterstonellidea Schram, 1981 |
| Family: | Waterstonellidae Schram, 1979 |
| Genus: | Waterstonella Schram, 1979 |
| Species: | W. grantonensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Waterstonella grantonensis Schram, 1979 | |
Waterstonella grantonensis is a species of fossil crustacean so distinct from other crustaceans that it has been placed in its own genus, Waterstonella, family, Waterstonellidae, and order, Waterstonellidea. It is named after Charles Waterstone, keeper of geology at the Royal Scottish Museum, while the specific epithet commemorates the location where the fossil was found, the Granton shrimp beds, near Edinburgh.
References
- ^ Frederick Schram (1979). "British Carboniferous Malacostraca". Fieldiana Geology. 40.
- Patrick J. Orr & Derek E. G. Briggs (1999). Exceptionally preserved conchostracans and other crustaceans from the Upper Carboniferous of Ireland. Special papers in palaeontology. Vol. 62. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-901702-68-5.
- E. N. K. Clarkson (1985). "Carboniferous crustaceans". Geology Today. 1 (1): 11β15. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2451.1985.tb00277.x.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Waterstonella | |
| Waterstonellidae | |
| Waterstonellidea | |
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