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

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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., Cryptoscorpius americanus n. gen. n. sp.
Palaeopisthacanthus vogelandurdeni n. sp. Jeram 1994 scorpion
BELUM K14086
Cryptoscorpius americanus n. gen. n. sp. Jeram 1994 scorpion
BELUM K14083a, b, 14079, 14080, 14081