Where: United Kingdom (55.9° N, 3.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.0° S, 0.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: West Lothian Oil Shale Formation, Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)

• "mid-Visean" according to Kjellesvig-Waering. From "plant bed," possibly from oil shales near the Redhall marine band, which is exposed in the area.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: B. N. Peach. 1883. A new species of fossil scorpions from the Carboniferous rocks of Scotland and the English borders, with a review of the genera Eoscorpius and Mazonia of Messrs Meek and Worthen. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 30:397-412 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153590: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.12.2013

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