Where: Shropshire, United Kingdom (52.9° N, 3.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.3° S, 7.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Westphalian B (314.6 - 314.6 Ma)
• Coal Measures, Upper Anthraconaia modiolaris Zone, probably near the Main Coal of North Wales coalfield
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the BGS
Primary reference: L. J. Wills. 1959. The external anatomy of some Carboniferous "scorpions" part 1. Palaeontology 1:261-282 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153559: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Arachnida | |
Pareobuthus salopiensis n. gen. n. sp.
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