Where: Illinois (41.5° N, 90.6° W: paleocoordinates 6.3° S, 27.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bashkirian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)
• Namurian or Westphalian A
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by R.L. Leary
• Repository: Illinois State Museum
Primary reference: R. L. Leary. 1980. Labriscorpio alliedensis: a new Carboniferous scorpion from Rock Island County, Illinois. Journal of Paleontology 54:1255-1257 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153591: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Arachnida | |
Labriscorpio alliedensis n. gen. n. sp.
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