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| ABOVE: Eurypterus lacustris (-) with associated eurypterid parts (tergites, a carapace, etc.) from the Williamsville Waterlime (Late Silurian Bertie Group) RQS, Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, Canada. Note the arrangement of the tergites - part of a windrow of current collected eurypterid debris. Specimen collected in 2005. |
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| Gilboa Eurypterid & Forest |
| LEFT: Protolepidodendron scharianum, a land plant from the sandstone beds at Gilboa, New York. These beds, of latest Middle Devonian age, bear a wonderful flora and fauna including simple plants and lycopods, precursors of the great Carboniferous forests of the world. Many of the plants were also carried out to sea, and are found in such rocks across New York to the Lake Erie shoreline (Hamilton Group and overlying strata). BELOW: Grossopterus inexpectans, the eurypterid associated with the Gilboa Forest. The carapace shown does not present much contrast, but the lateral eyes are clearly shown. Complete specimens are not known from New York. A Google! search will provide much more informa- tion on this relatively rare form. The genus has been found in Germany in rocks of approximately the same age. There are also interesting websites dealing with the plants of the Devonian of New York state and states southward. |
| Gilboa Eurypterid & Forest added November 20, 2005. Photos to come include carcinosomatids, dolichopterids, fossils associated with eurypterids and interesting sedimentary aspects of eurypterid distribution in the rocks of the Silurian and Devonian of the World. Submit a photo. Contact info is: PaleoResearch at paleoresearch@yahoo.com |