Crookhill near Beith (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

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)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Scorpiones - Waterstoniidae
? Waterstonia brachistodactyla n. sp. Kjellesvig-Waering 1986 scorpion
RSM 1978.5.1