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Polychaeta taxon details

Scopyrites magnus Briggs & Bartels, 2010 †

1595567  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1595567)

accepted
Species
marine, terrestrial
fossil only
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]   
Note from Wingertshell Member of the Kaub...  
From editor or global species database
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]
Etymology Scopyrites magnus is named with a Latin adjective meaning large. The length of the fossil is "c. 46 mm, but the animal must...  
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]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Scopyrites magnus Briggs & Bartels, 2010 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1595567 on 2024-05-17
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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]