Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.7° N, 4.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.4° N, 4.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pendleian (330.9 - 327.0 Ma)
• "1 to 3 fathoms above the Main Clay Ironstone or the Dalry Clayband Ironstone, near the Johnstone Shell-Bed horizon - that is, the Limestone Coal Group of the Scottis Carboniferous succession." Namurian E1a.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: Repository: Royal Scottish Museum
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 153579: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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