Waterstonella

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, Waterstonellidea.^[2] It is named after Charles Waterstone, keeper of geology at the Royal Scottish Museum,^[1] while the specific epithet commemorates the location where the fossil was found, the Granton shrimp beds, near Edinburgh.^[3]

Waterstonella Temporal range: Lower Carboniferous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Order:	Waterstonellidea Schram, 1981
Family:	Waterstonellidae Schram, 1979
Genus:	Waterstonella Schram, 1979
Species:	W. grantonensis
Binomial name
Waterstonella grantonensis Schram, 1979 [1]