''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
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, Waterstonellidea. It is named after
Charles Waterstone
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, keeper of geology at the
Royal Scottish Museum,
while the
specific epithet
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commemorates the location where the fossil was found, the
Granton shrimp beds, near
Edinburgh.
References
Prehistoric crustacean genera
Carboniferous crustaceans
Prehistoric life of Europe
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