Fossils discovered in Australia were named after the young brothers Angus and Malcolm Young. (as published in the records of the
Australian Museum, Volume 50, Number 3 (November 1998).
Two species of a strange joint-legged animal named Maldybulakia which are belived to either be related to millipedes or the horseshoe crab.
One species was named for Malcolm (Maldybulakia malcolmi) and one species was named for Angus
(Maldybulakia angusi). "malcolmi" was deposited in (possibly lived in?)
a lake that ponded in volcanic terrane in southern New South Wales 383
million years ago. "angusi" got deposited in floodplain sand in a river
system not far from Canberra about 414 million years ago. The only
closely related species to these two Aussie Maldybulakias comes from
Kazakhstan (the name "Maldybulakia" wasn't invented by me; two Russian
palaeontologists named it for the farm, Maldybulak, where they found
their fossils). A complete animal got up to about 15 cm or so in
length.
Senior Research scientist Greg Edgecombe from the Australian museum named the two species after the Young brothers due to the close connection between the two species.
Thanks and credit for this article must go to
Greg Edgecombe
Senior Research Scientist
Australian Museum
The Australian Museum - Australia's oldest natural history museum
well they moved on down