| P number: | P521083 |
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| Caption: | A fossil specimen of Pygocephalus dubius Salter. A fossil crustacean. (Arthropoda, Crustacea.) Greengairs, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland. |
| Description: | Pygocephalus dubius is a crustacean belonging to the Malacostraca along with Crangopsis and other extinct Carboniferous genera such as Anthrapalaemon and Tealliocaris. British Geological Survey Biostratigraphy Collection number GSE 5832. Green Spot. They have three sections, a head with eyes on stalks and antennae, a thorax consisting of eight segments all free from one another, and an abdomen with six free segments and an often flattened telson. Pygocephalus dubius lived in the Upper Carboniferous Coal Measures, a period of fluvio-deltaic conditions with short-lived marine incursions. Figd. B.N.Peach, Higher Crustacea Carb. Rocks. Scot. Mem. Geol. Surv. 1908, pl. IV, fig.1. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2003 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 346.60 KB; 1000 x 665 pixels; 85 x 56 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 176 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Fossils |
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