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Palaeomachus anglicus
Taxonomy
Eoscorpius anglicus was named by Woodward (1876). Its type specimen is BMNH I.944 and is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Skegby New Colliery, near Mansfield, which is in a Westphalian deltaic shale in the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Palaeomachus.
It was recombined as Palaeomachus anglicus by Pocock (1911), Petrunkevitch (1953), Kjellesvig-Waering (1986) and Dunlop et al. (2013).
It was recombined as Palaeomachus anglicus by Pocock (1911), Petrunkevitch (1953), Kjellesvig-Waering (1986) and Dunlop et al. (2013).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1876 | Eoscorpius anglicus Woodward p. 58 figs. Pl 8, figs 1-3 |
| 1904 | Eoscorpius anglicus Fritsch p. 76 |
| 1911 | Palaeomachus anglicus Pocock p. 16 fig. 2 |
| 1953 | Palaeomachus anglicus Petrunkevitch p. 38 fig. 132 |
| 1986 | Palaeomachus anglicus Kjellesvig-Waering p. 242 fig. 109 |
| 2013 | Palaeomachus anglicus Dunlop et al. p. 38 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Palaeomachus anglicus Woodward 1876
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: Westphalian B or 316.90000 to 314.60000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Westphalian | United Kingdom (Nottinghamshire) | Eoscorpius anglicus (type locality: 153582) | |
| Westphalian B | United Kingdom | Eoscorpius anglicus (153652) |