Vattenfallet section, Visby, top of Högklintslager beds (Silurian of Sweden)

Where: Sweden (57.6° N, 18.3° E: paleocoordinates 21.6° S, 3.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Högklint Formation, Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• Associated with a typical marine fauna consisting of brachiopods, bryozoans, crinoids, ostracodes, etc.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet Stockholm (SRM)

Primary reference: T. Thorell and G. Lindström. 1884. Sur un Scorpion du terrain silurien de Suède. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 99:984-985 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153548: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Scorpiones - Palaeophonidae
Palaeophonus nuncius n. gen. n. sp.
Palaeophonus nuncius n. gen. n. sp. Thorell and Lindström 1884 scorpion
SRM Ar. 32235, 31591, 32067, 32236, 32244, 32270