Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.6° N, 62.7° W: paleocoordinates 7.0° S, 4.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pictou Group, Westphalian C to Westphalian C (314.6 - 307.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray, green shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by W.A. Bell in 1912-1914; reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: M. J. Copeland. 1957. The arthropod fauna of the Upper Carboniferous rocks of the Maritime Provinces. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 286:1-110 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153551: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Arachnida | |
Boreoscorpio copelandi n. gen. n. sp.
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