Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.0° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 2.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: East Kirkton Limestone Member (East Kirkton Limestone Formation), Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original chitin
Collected by S. P. Wood in 1988; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), chemical, mechanical,
• BELUM, NMS (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh), UMZC (University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge), and GLAHM (Hunerian Museum, Glasgow) collections
Primary reference: A. J. Jeram. 1994. Scorpions from the Viséan of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland, with a revision of the infraorder Mesoscorpionina. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 84:283-299 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 131672: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 27.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pulmonoscorpius "sp. A" Jeram 1994 scorpion NMS G 1990.78.3 (near complete juvenile scorpion) from from units 42-47. Is the 'bilobostern scorpion' first reported by Rolfe 1988 pp. 25-26, fig. 6
Pulmonoscorpius "sp. B" Jeram 1994 scorpion BELUM K17065 (a third stadium pedipalp manus and fixed finger from units 42-47
Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis n. gen. n. sp. Jeram 1994 scorpion NMS G 1992.38.1 (holotype juvenile scorpion) from unit 47 and several other specimens with unspecified provenance or either Units 42-47 or the Little Cliff Shale Member: (NMS G 1992.38.1, 1990.78.2, 1987.7.136, 1987.7.8, 1990.78.1, 1985.4.67; BELUM K17061, K17062, K17502) [see collection 131671]
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"Orthosterni indet." = Orthosternina
"Orthosterni indet." = Orthosternina Pocock 1911 scorpion Cuticle scrap from Units 42-47, BELUM K17059: pale cuticle with distinctive rugose surface ornament consisting of very fine tubercles. Setal follicles sparse and small
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