Capel Horeb quarry (Whalley collection) (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 3.7° W: paleocoordinates 26.3° S, 12.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Roman Camp Bed Formation, Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by P. Whalley; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: J. A. Dunlop and P. A. Selden. 2013. Scorpion fragments from the Silurian of Powys, Wales. Arachnology 16:27-32 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153611: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.12.2013

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Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Scorpiones -
Scorpiones indet. Latreille 1817 scorpion
NHM IA178-185