United Electric Companies Banner Mine: Westphalian D, Illinois

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Arachnida - Scorpiones - Palaeopisthacanthidae
Palaeopisthacanthus schucherti Petrunkevitch 1913
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]