Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Briggs, Derek E. G.; Bartels, Christoph. (2010). Annelids from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Lower Emsian, Rhenish Massif, Germany). <em>Palaeontology.</em> 53(1): 215-232., available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00927.x page(s): 226, figure 11; note: from Wingertshell Member of the Kaub Formation, Obereschenbach Quarry, Bundenbach, Germany [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Scopyrites magnus is named with a Latin adjective meaning large. The length of the fossil is "c. 46 mm, but the animal must have been considerably longer." [details]
Type locality from Wingertshell Member of the Kaub Formation, Obereschenbach Quarry, Bundenbach. No geolocation data is given, but Budenbach is west of Mainz, Germany [details]
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