Swillington brickpit, bed 18 (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Yorkshire, United Kingdom (53.8° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 0.7° N, 8.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• Carbonaceous shales occurring as seam splits and roof shales in sequences of thin coals at three horizons (beds 13, 18, and 20F of Scott (1978, 1984)); low Westphalian B

• 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 153601: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Scorpiones -
Gymnoscorpius mutillidigitus Jeram 1994 scorpion
BELUM K14476
"Compsoscorpius elegans" = Compsoscorpius buthiformis Pocock 1911 scorpion