NOTE ON PTERYGOTUS-ANGLICUS AGASSIZ (EURYPTERIDA, DEVONIAN) FROM THE CAMPBELLTON FORMATION, NEW-BRUNSWICK

Authors
Citation
Rf. Miller, NOTE ON PTERYGOTUS-ANGLICUS AGASSIZ (EURYPTERIDA, DEVONIAN) FROM THE CAMPBELLTON FORMATION, NEW-BRUNSWICK, Atlantic geology, 32(2), 1996, pp. 95-100
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Geology
Journal title
ISSN journal
08435561
Volume
32
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
95 - 100
Database
ISI
SICI code
0843-5561(1996)32:2<95:NOPA(D>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
Fragments of the large eurypterid Pterygotus, recently collected from the Devonian Campbellton Formation at Atholville, New Brunswick, are i dentified as belonging to P. anglicus Agassiz. The only previous Ptery gotus specimens from this site, collected in 1881, were assigned to a new species P. atlanticus Clarke and Ruedemann, in 1912. Clarke and Ru edemann's suggestion that Il atlanticus might turn out to be a small s pecimen of P. anglicus is supported by this new find. However, possibl e revision of P. atlanticus awaits the discovery of additional, more c omplete, material.