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Pterygotus anglicus Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, 1844 - Sea Scorpion

Description

Fossil eurypterid, Pterygotus anglicus, from the lower Devonian of Turin Hill, Angus, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection

Museum reference

G.1859.33.1991

Collection

Fossils

Scientific name(s)

species: Pterygotus anglicus Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, 1844 - Sea Scorpion

Specimen details

Specimen form: Fossil

Materials

Micaceous sandstone

Physical description

Gnathobase of pterygotid eurypterid in a block of dark grey-green micaceous sandstone

Collection place(s)

Turin Hill, Turin, Angus, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Collector: Miller, Hugh, 1802 - 1856
Hugh Miller Collection

References

Figured by Miller, H. "Old Red Sandstone", plate 9, fig. 1

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