Passage Gulf (Ciurca collection) (Silurian of the United States)

Where: New York (43.0° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.3° S, 38.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Phelps Member (Fiddlers Green Formation), Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic, gray lime mudstone

• The stratigraphic sections and the fossil content suggest that it was deposited in a near-shore marine setting, but the evaporites and casts of halite pseudomorphs with sides of up to 30 cm suggest the environment was far from normal marine; hypersalinity must have prevailed throughout most of the depositional history of the Bertie Group.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by S.J. Ciurca; reposited in the YPM

• Additional repository: Buffalo Museum of Science (Ciurca collection acquired by YPM recently before 2008)

Primary reference: E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering. 1986. A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world. Palaeontographica Americana 55:1-287 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153529: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Scorpiones - Proscorpiidae
"Proscorpius osborni" = Proscorpius osborni, "Archaeophonus eurypteroides" = Proscorpius osborni, "Stoermeroscorpio delicatus n. gen. n. sp." = Proscorpius osborni
"Proscorpius osborni" = Proscorpius osborni Whitfield 1885 scorpion
BMS E25162 (Ciurca 031966-1), YPM 208125 (Ciurca 041771-1), YPM 208126 (Ciurca 040564), YPM 209823 (042570-1A), YPM 208121 (040668-1,2)
"Archaeophonus eurypteroides" = Proscorpius osborni Whitfield 1885 scorpion
YPM 206691 (Ciurca 062065-1)
"Stoermeroscorpio delicatus n. gen. n. sp." = Proscorpius osborni Whitfield 1885 scorpion
YPM 206692 (Ciurca 04117-1,2)