Allied Stone Company quarry, Rock Island (Carboniferous of the United States)

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
 Scorpiones - Proscorpiidae
Labriscorpio alliedensis n. gen. n. sp.
Labriscorpio alliedensis n. gen. n. sp. Leary 1980 scorpion
ISM 416899