Palaeomachus anglicus Woodward 1876 (scorpion)

Arachnida - Scorpiones

Alternative combination: Eoscorpius anglicus

Full reference: H. Woodward. 1876. On the discovery of a fossil scorpion in the British Coal-measures. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 32:57-59

Belongs to Palaeomachus according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013

See also Fritsch 1904, Kjellesvig-Waering 1986, Petrunkevitch 1953, Pocock 1911 and Woodward 1876

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BMNH I.944. Its type locality is Skegby New Colliery, near Mansfield, which is in a Westphalian deltaic shale in the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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