| P number: | P521084 |
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| Caption: | A fossil specimen of Tealliocaris woodwardi R. Etheridge Jr. A fossil crustacean. (Arthropoda, Crustacea.) Cheese Bay, half way between North Berwick & Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. |
| Description: | Tealliocaris woodwardi is a crustacean belonging to the Malacostraca along with Crangopsis and other extinct Carboniferous genera such as Anthrapalaemon and Pygocephalus. British Geological Survey Biostratigraphy Collection number GSE 5931. Syntype. This specimen was found at Cheese Bay, half way between North Berwick and Gullane. Tealliocaris has 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. Tealliocaris lived in the Upper Carboniferous Coal Measures, a period of fluvio-deltaic conditions with short-lived marine incursions. This specimen is from the Carboniferous Calciferous Sandstone Series. Figd. B.N.Peach, Higher Crustacea Carb. Rocks. Scot. Mem. Geol. Surv. 1908, pl. I, fig.1; Briggs & Clarkson 1985, T.R.S.E. 76 (pp. 173-201), fig. 1b, 11a, 12a; Schran?, 1979, Feldiana? 40, p 77. Fig. 33. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2003 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 334.88 KB; 1000 x 747 pixels; 85 x 63 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 198 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Fossils |
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