Dalmeny railway cutting (Carboniferous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (56.0° N, 3.4° W: paleocoordinates 5.5° S, 0.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "middle Visean"

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black, gray shale

• Dark gray-black shale along with ostracodes

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: 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 153537: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
 Scorpiones - Centromachidae
Phoxiscorpio peachi n. gen. n. sp.
Phoxiscorpio peachi n. gen. n. sp. Kjellesvig-Waering 1986 scorpion
GSE 2140