Lone Star Lake spillway (Ulster Museum coll.) (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Kansas (38.8° N, 95.4° W: paleocoordinates 3.1° S, 28.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lawrence Shale Formation, Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• Shale above Lower Williamsburg Coal

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified, carbonaceous shale

• Forest City Basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, original chitin

Collection methods: chemical, peroxide, sieve

• Repository: Ulster Museum (BELUM)

Primary reference: A. J. Jeram. 1994. Carboniferous Orthosterni and their relationships to living scorpions. Palaeontology 37:513-550 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153595: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Scorpiones -
Corniops mapesii n. gen. n. sp.
Corniops mapesii n. gen. n. sp. Jeram 1994 scorpion
BELUM K14082
 Scorpiones - Palaeopisthacanthidae
Palaeopisthacanthus vogelandurdeni n. sp. Jeram 1994 scorpion
BELUM K14086
Cryptoscorpius americanus n. gen. n. sp. Jeram 1994 scorpion
BELUM K14083a, b, 14079, 14080, 14081