Where: Lancashire, United Kingdom (53.5° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 7.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wigan Five Foot Coal Formation, Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)
• Carbonaceous shale from a seam split in the Wigan Five Foot Coal; uppermost Westphalian A
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, carbonaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
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 153599: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Arachnida | |
Gymnoscorpius mutillidigitus, "Compsoscorpius elegans" = Compsoscorpius buthiformis
"Compsoscorpius elegans" = Compsoscorpius buthiformis Pocock 1911 scorpion |