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
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: Repository: New York State Museum (formerly Cornell University Geological Museum)
Primary reference: E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering. 1966. Silurian scorpions of New York. Journal of Paleontology 40:359-375 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153532: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Proscorpius osborni" = Proscorpius osborni, "Archaeophonus eurypteroides n. gen. n. sp." = Proscorpius osborni
"Proscorpius osborni" = Proscorpius osborni Whitfield 1885 scorpion NYSM 12948 (CUGM 41973) (coll. L.R. Frynow 1961)
"Archaeophonus eurypteroides n. gen. n. sp." = Proscorpius osborni Whitfield 1885 scorpion NYSM 12947 (CUGM 41109) (coll. D. Francois 1961)
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