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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Arachnida | |
"Eoscorpius anglicus n. sp." = Palaeomachus anglicus
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