Stellarton Coalfield (Carboniferous to of Canada)

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
 Scorpiones - Isobuthidae
Boreoscorpio copelandi n. gen. n. sp.
Boreoscorpio copelandi n. gen. n. sp. Kjellesvig-Waering 1986 scorpion
GSC 12778