The Patrick Burn Formation is a Silurian aged geological formation outcropping near Lesmahagow in Lanarkshire in the Scottish Lowlands. Fossils are known from the formation, including from the Birk Kn
Slimonia acuminata reconstruction
Ainiktozoon loganense reconstruction
FMIB 46280 Ceratiocaris papilio, one of the fossil Phyllocarda
Erettopterus is a genus of large predatory eurypterid, an extinct group of aquatic arthropods. Fossils of Erettopterus have been discovered in deposits ranging from Early Silurian to the Early Devonia
Patrick Burn Formation
…up in a museum in Berlin, who refused to return them. Paleobiota Arthropods Arthropods Species Notes Images Slimonia acuminata A slimonid eurypterid. Erettopterus bilobus A pterygotid eurypterid. Selkiepterella lanceolata An adelophthalmid eurypterid, previously a species of Nanahughmilleria. Waterstonopterus lanarkensis…
Restoration of E. osiliensis.
Illustration of fossils of E. bilobus.
Holotype of E. grandis, a telson.