Waterstonella

Waterstonella Temporal range: Lower Carboniferous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Order:	Waterstonellidea Schram, 1981
Family:	Waterstonellidae Schram, 1979
Genus:	Waterstonella Schram, 1979
Species:	W. grantonensis
Binomial name
Waterstonella grantonensis Schram, 1979 [1]

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]

References

1. Frederick Schram (1979). "British Carboniferous Malacostraca". Fieldiana Geology. 40.
2. Patrick J. Orr & Derek E. G. Briggs (1999). Exceptionally preserved conchostracans and other crustaceans from the Upper Carboniferous of Ireland. Special papers in palaeontology. Vol. 62. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-901702-68-5.
3. E. N. K. Clarkson (1985). "Carboniferous crustaceans". Geology Today. 1 (1): 11–15. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2451.1985.tb00277.x.