PBDB Collection

Bromsgrove Quarry (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Worcestershire, United Kingdom (52.3° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 15.2° N, 11.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Finstall Member (Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Bromsgrove Sandstone dated as Anisian on the basis of palynology (Benton et al. 1994); Finstall Member formerly known as the "Building Stones"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; lithified, micaceous, green, carbonaceous shale

• "Wills interpreted the fossiliferous lenticular beds as deposits formed in channels, pools, or lakes on the floodplain and envisaged cyclothemic sedimentation from temporary rivers gradually filling the shallow subsiding Midland Cuvette"

• Wills noted that the majority of the fossils came from "lenticular beds of marl and shale, while some appear in the sandstone. Some horizons were very carbonaceous, and those contained abundant fragmentary arachnid remains. The red marl and red sandstone were barren of fossils, and plants occurred in the gray sandstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Wills; reposited in the SM

• Repository: CAMSM, Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge

Primary reference: L. J. Wills. 1910. On the fossiliferous lower Keuper rocks of Worcestershire, with descriptions of some of the plants and animals discovered therein. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 21:249-331 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153542: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.12.2013, edited by Richard Butler

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Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
Scorpiones - Isobuthidae	Bromsgroviscorpio willsi n. gen. n. sp. Bromsgroviscorpio willsi n. gen. n. sp. Kjellesvig-Waering 1986 scorpion CAMSM Wills 0163 (Mesophonus bromsgroviensis in Wills, 1947)
Scorpiones - Stenoscorpionidae	"Mesophonus gracilis n. sp." = Stenoscorpio gracilis, "Mesophonus pseudogracilis n. sp." = Stenoscorpio pseudogracilis "Mesophonus gracilis n. sp." = Stenoscorpio gracilis Wills 1910 scorpion CAMSM Wills 132, 11, 025, 102, 137, 147, 164, 185, 0191, 203, 228, 0257, 283, 327A "Mesophonus pseudogracilis n. sp." = Stenoscorpio pseudogracilis Wills 1947 scorpion CAMSM Wills 231, 012, 029, 052B, 065, 080, 184, 229, 231, 0232B, 257, 278, 279, 282
Scorpiones - Spongiophonidae	Spongiophonus pustulosus Spongiophonus pustulosus Wills 1947 scorpion CAMSM Wills 0286, 276, 059
Scorpiones - Mesophonidae	"Mesophonus perornatus n. gen. n. sp." = Mesophonus perornatus, "Mesophonus opisthophthalmus n. sp." = Mesophonus perornatus, Mesophonus pulcherrimus n. sp. "Mesophonus perornatus n. gen. n. sp." = Mesophonus perornatus Wills 1910 scorpion CAMSM Wills 206, 7, 008, 011, 017, 024, 034, 039A, 040, 85, 094, 095, 0110, 0112, 0122, 125, 0128, 156, 0176, 205, 210, 0212, 213, 0266, 277, 287, 050, 036, 0203, 284 "Mesophonus opisthophthalmus n. sp." = Mesophonus perornatus Wills 1910 scorpion CAMSM Wills 0107, 0234, 0161 Mesophonus pulcherrimus n. sp. Wills 1910 scorpion CAMSM Wills 201; and var. immaculatus
Scorpiones - Willsiscorpionidae	"Mesophonus bromsgroviensis n. sp." = Willsiscorpio bromsgroviensis "Mesophonus bromsgroviensis n. sp." = Willsiscorpio bromsgroviensis Wills 1910 scorpion CAMSM Wills 157, 9, 13, 18, 23, 35, 47, 074, 080, 098, 101, 195, 208, 212, 213, 215, 220, 0235, 270, 273, 275, 0280, 295