Shore west of Eagle Rock, Cramond (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (56.0° N, 3.3° W: paleocoordinates 6.8° S, 1.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• Calciferous Sandstone series, lower Oil Shale Group (lower Visean)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by J. Bennie

• Repository: Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh

Primary reference: B. N. Peach. 1883. A new species of fossil scorpions from the Carboniferous rocks of Scotland and the English borders, with a review of the genera Eoscorpius and Mazonia of Messrs Meek and Worthen. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 30:397-412 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153561: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Scorpiones - Scoloposcorpionidae
Scoloposcorpio cramondensis n. gen. n. sp. Kjellesvig-Waering 1986 scorpion
GSE 2173, 5862