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THE HABITAT OF THE EURYPTERIDA

Fig. 12. Sketch Map Giving Outcrops of the Wenlock of the Pentland Hills, Scotland
(After Henderson and Brown)

pared with that made by Laurie at the time when he described the eurypterid fauna from these beds. He says: "The rock in which the Eurypterids are preserved is an irregularly fissile fine-grained sandstone, containing a considerable amount of carbonaceous matter dis-