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II.—On some Specimens of Dithyrocaris from the Carboniferous Limestone series, East Kilbride, and from the Old Red Sandstone of Lanarkshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Henry Woodward
Affiliation:
British Museum
Robert Etheridge Jun.
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Scotland.

Extract

The nine specimens of Phyllopodous Crustacea about to be noticed are, with one exception (that from Lanarkshire), all from the undoubted Carboniferous Limestone series, East Kilbride, a locality already well known to local geologists as having yielded a very rich series of Carboniferous forms.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1873

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References

page 482 note 1 Records of General. Science, by Dr. R. D. Thomson, 1835, vol. i. p. 136.

page 482 note 2 Probably the other half of the carapace has been folded beneath it, as the posterior margin seems to be doubled.

page 484 note 1 See Murchison's “Siluria,” 4th edition, 1867, p. 236, fig. 66, and footnote. See also Geol. Mag., 1865, Vol. II. p. 401, Pl. XI. Fig. 1.

page 484 note 2 For “anterior” read posterior.

page 484 note 3 For “posterior” read anterior.

page 485 note 1 Not deeply emarginated, as in D. Scouleri, M'Coy.

page 485 note 2 M'Coy, Carb. Foss. Ireland, p. 163, pl. xxiii. fig. 2. There seems no reason to doubt that this species is synonymous with D. testudineus, with which it should now be merged.