Benniescorpio tuberculatus Peach 1883 (scorpion)

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

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