Pemberton opencast mine, near Wigan: Westphalian A, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Arachnida
- Scorpiones
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Gymnoscorpius mutillidigitus
Jeram 1994
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| BELUM K14525 | ||||||||||
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Compsoscorpius elegans
Petrunkevitch 1949
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27 specimens | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Lancashire |
| Coordinates: | 53.5° North, 2.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 0.1° North, 7.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Bashkirian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Westphalian A | ||
| Age range of interval: | 318.8 - 317 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Wigan Five Foot Coal | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Carbonaceous shale from a seam split in the Wigan Five Foot Coal; uppermost Westphalian A | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified carbonaceous "shale" |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | chemical,peroxide,sieve |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Ulster Museum (BELUM) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 153599 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2013-12-31 13:06:33 | Last modified: | 2013-12-31 13:06:33 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-12-31 13:06:33 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 49661. | A. J. Jeram. 1994. Carboniferous Orthosterni and their relationships to living scorpions. Palaeontology 37:513-550 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |