Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.1° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.6° S, 0.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cementstone-Sandstone Series Formation (Upper Border Group), Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• "Lowermost Bernician or S1 of the Visean"

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by A. Macconochie

• Repository: Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland

Primary reference: B. N. Peach. 1883. A new species of fossil scorpions from the Carboniferous rocks of Scotland and the English borders, with a review of the genera Eoscorpius and Mazonia of Messrs Meek and Worthen. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 30:397-412 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153535: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.12.2013

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