United Electric Companies Banner Mine: Westphalian D, Illinois
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Arachnida
- Scorpiones
- Palaeopisthacanthidae
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Palaeopisthacanthus schucherti
Petrunkevitch 1913
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7 specimens | |||||||||
| BELUM K14420-14423, 14425-14427 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Illinois | County: | Fulton |
| Coordinates: | 40.5° North, 89.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.8° South, 24.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Moscovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Westphalian D | ||
| Age range of interval: | 309.8 - 307.4 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Carbondale | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Bituminous coal from the Colchester (no. 2) coal | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified coal |
| Environment: | mire/swamp |
| Geology comments: "forested flood-basin environments" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | adpression,original chitin |
| 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: | 153605 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2013-12-31 13:41:52 | Last modified: | 2013-12-31 13:41:52 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-12-31 13:41:52 |
| 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] |