Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.1° N, 3.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 6.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Coal Measures Formation, Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray shale

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 153562: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.12.2013

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