Where: Worcestershire, United Kingdom (52.4° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 25.2° S, 8.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: St. Maughans Formation, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)
• Downtonian zone I.9 (St. Maughans Formation based on geological map)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W.W. King in 1933; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering. 1972. Brontoscorpio anglicus: a gigantic lower Paleozoic scorpion from central England. Journal of Paleontology 46:39-42 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153545: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Arachnida | |
Brontoscorpio anglicus n. gen. n. sp.
Brontoscorpio anglicus n. gen. n. sp. Kjellesvig-Waering 1972 scorpion BMNH In.31405 (counterparts 31403, 31404)
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