Wuda Tuff: Asselian, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Arachnida
- Scorpiones
- Eoscorpiidae
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Eoscorpius sp.
Meek and Worthen 1868
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| NIGP 172215 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Nei Mongol |
| Coordinates: | 39.5° North, 106.6° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.2° North, 80.8° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Cisuralian |
| Stage: | Asselian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 1 |
| Key time interval: | Asselian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 298.9 - 293.52 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Taiyuan | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Collected from the volcanic tuff bed between Coal No. 6 and No. 7 in Wuda Coalfield, Inner Mongolia, China. The tuff bed belongs to the uppermost part of Taiyuan Formation. Unpublished isotopic dating indicates the tuff bed to be Asselian in age (Wang et al., 2014). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified tuff |
| Environment: | mire/swamp |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | adpression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | NIGPAS |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Wuda coalfield | ||
| Database number: | 211361 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2020-07-15 03:08:03 | Last modified: | 2020-07-14 22:10:13 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2020-07-15 03:08:03 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 73023. | X. J. Lei, W. M. Zhou, M. L. Wan, H. B. Wei, and B. Wang. 2020. A new scorpion from a Permian peat swamp in Inner Mongolia, China. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 131:160-167 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |