Newton Farm, Foulden (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.8° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° S, 0.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ivorian (353.8 - 345.3 Ma)

• Lower Carboniferous (Tuedian), Cementstone Group, Calciferous Sandstone Member

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by T.M. Owens in 1924; reposited in the BMNH

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 153557: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Scorpiones - Eoscorpiidae
Trachyscorpio squarrosus n. gen. n. sp.
Trachyscorpio squarrosus n. gen. n. sp. Kjellesvig-Waering 1986 scorpion
BMNH In. 25985, 25984, 25986