Pterygotus anglicus Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, 1844 - Sea Scorpion

Description

Fossil eurypterid, Pterygotus anglicus, from the Lower Devonian of Angus, Scotland, part of the Hugh Miller Collection

Museum reference

G.1859.33.1990

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

Distal part of a pterygotid chelicera preserved in a rectangular block of dark green micaceous sandstone

Collection place(s)

Angus, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

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

References

Figured by Waterston, C. D. 1964. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. 66, number 2, p. 21, text-fig. 4D