(Fig. 16 D-G)
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Eryma cf. bedelta – Woods 1930: pl. 21, fig. 2.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype NHMUK 24559.
ETYMOLOGY. — The specific epithet comes from the Latin “ gigantes ”, meaning giant, associated to the name of the type locality, Shotover. It refers to the giant of Shotover, a geoglyph, mentioned during the 17th century by Jean Aubrey, that has disappeared now.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Shotover, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
TYPE AGE. — Oxfordian.
DESCRIPTION
Carapace
Sub-cylindrical carapace; fusiform intercalated plate; elongated cardiac region; deep and wide cervical groove, becoming wider ventrally, slightly sinuous at its median inflexion, joined to dorsal margin and to antennal groove; deep and very wide antennal groove; short, shallow gastro-orbital groove, oblique, originating as a slight median inflexion of cervical groove; subparallel postcervical and branchiocardiac grooves, slightly curved; deep and wide postcervical groove, not joined to dorsal margin and interrupted in hepatic region; deep and wide branchiocardiac groove, becoming wider towards its junction to the hepatic groove, joined to dorsal margin, joined to the posterior extremity of the hepatic groove; wide hepatic groove, concavo-convex, joined to the cervical groove; slightly inflated ω area, ventrally delimited by a shallow depression extending between cervical and hepatic grooves; flat χ area; deep and wide inferior groove, joined to hepatic groove.