Waterstonella
Extinct genus of crustaceans
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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.[2] It is named after Charles Waterstone, keeper of geology at the Royal Scottish Museum,[1] while the specific epithet commemorates the location where the fossil was found, the Granton shrimp beds, near Edinburgh.[3]
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| Order: | Waterstonellidea Schram, 1981 |
| Family: | Waterstonellidae Schram, 1979 |
| Genus: | Waterstonella Schram, 1979 |
| Species: | W. grantonensis |
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| Waterstonella grantonensis | |
