West Bay, Parrsboro (PU collection) (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.4° N, 64.4° W: paleocoordinates 8.3° S, 7.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Parrsboro Formation (Mabou Group), Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• Unable to determine exact source bed, but cliff is composed of vertically-standing sandstones and shales belonging to the lower facies of the Parrsboro Formation of the Mabou Group. Formation is dated on megafloral and microfloral evidence as Westphalian A.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale

• Maritimes basin; major rift-valley system developed after the Acadian orogeny

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Gerard R. Case in 1967

• Repository: Princeton University

Primary reference: E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering. 1986. A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world. Palaeontographica Americana 55:1-287 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153556: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.12.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
 Scorpiones - Eoscorpiidae
Eoscorpius casei n. sp.
Eoscorpius casei n. sp. Kjellesvig-Waering 1986 scorpion
PU 87266 (Eoscorpius sp. in Carroll et al., 1972)