Arachnida - Scorpiones - Scoloposcorpionidae
Alternative combinations: Alloscorpius tuberculatus, Archaeoctonus tuberculatus, Eoscorpius tuberculatus
Full reference: B. N. Peach. 1883. A new species of fossil scorpions from the Carboniferous rocks of Scotland and the English borders, with a review of the genera Eoscorpius and Mazonia of Messrs Meek and Worthen. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 30:397-412
Belongs to Benniescorpio according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013
See also Kjellesvig-Waering 1986, Peach 1883, Petrunkevitch 1949, Petrunkevitch 1953, Pocock 1911 and Wills 1960
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: GSE 9675. Its type locality is Blair Point, Dysart, which is in a Westphalian A terrestrial shale in the Lower Coal Measures Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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