Skegby New Colliery, near Mansfield (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom (53.1° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.7° N, 8.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian (318.1 - 306.9 Ma)

• Upper Carboniferous Coal Measures

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, nodular, sideritic shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Edward Wilson; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: H. Woodward. 1876. On the discovery of a fossil scorpion in the British Coal-measures. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 32:57-59 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153582: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.12.2013

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Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Scorpiones -
"Eoscorpius anglicus n. sp." = Palaeomachus anglicus
"Eoscorpius anglicus n. sp." = Palaeomachus anglicus Woodward 1876 scorpion
BMNH I.944