Misnomers
Paul Selden
Paul.Selden at MAN.AC.UK
Mon Feb 23 12:59:59 CST 1998
Sean, and all.
There are lots of examples in palaeontology, some fossil arthropods:
The eurypterid _Baltoeurypterus tetragonophthalmus_ had its (reniform) eyes
crushed so that they looked square when described by Eichwald (1839).
Similarly, the eyes of the trilobite _Chasmops_ were missing.
Another, huge, eurypterid was first described as a giant graptolite (a
colonial planktonic organism), as _Megalograptus_!
As you might expect, there are loads of fossils first described as
something else, plants as animals, etc,. amongst fossils.
Paul
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