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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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TURINIA. Zool. A fossil arthropod of the Eurypterid family from the Lower Old Red Sandstone era (1896 R. H. Traquair in Brown & Buckley Fauna Mry. II. 262).
[From Turin Hill, near Forfar.]
