Where: Indiana (39.3° N, 87.1° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° S, 25.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pottsville Formation, Westphalian A to Westphalian A (318.7 - 314.6 Ma)

• Found in a shale member of the Pottsville Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray, green shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by R. Addington; reposited in the FMNH

Primary reference: J. I. Moore. 1923. A review of the present knowledge of fossil scorpions with the description of a new species from the Pottsville Formation of Clay County, Indiana. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 38:125-134 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153563: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.12.2013

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