Glencartholm, Eskdale (BMNH collection): Arundian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Arachnida
- Scorpiones
- Loboarchaeoctonidae
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| Petrunkevitch 1949 | 2 specimens | |||||||||
| BMNH I.988 | ||||||||||
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= Loboarchaeoctonus squamosus n. gen., n. sp.
Kjellesvig-Waering 1986
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Kjellesvig-Waering 1986 | |||||||||
| Petrunkevitch 1949 | 1 specimen | |||||||||
| BMNH In.12848/9 | ||||||||||
| Kjellesvig-Waering 1986 | ||||||||||
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Arachnida
- Scorpiones
- Eoscorpiidae
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
| BMNH In. 39765 | ||||||||||
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Arachnida
- Scorpiones
- Centromachidae
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| Petrunkevitch 1949 | 1 specimen | |||||||||
| BMNH In.39764 | ||||||||||
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= Anthracochaerilus palustris n. gen., n. sp.
Kjellesvig-Waering 1986
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Kjellesvig-Waering 1986 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland | County: | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Coordinates: | 55.1° North, 3.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.5° South, 11.1° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Visean | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 2 |
| Key time interval: | Arundian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 346.7 - 340.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Upper Border | Formation: | Glencartholm Volcanic Beds | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Visean C2S1" (= Arundian) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "siliciclastic" |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | adpression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 153558 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2013-12-27 23:42:48 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-12-27 23:42:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 49610. | E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering. 1986. A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world. Palaeontographica Americana 55:1-287 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
| 9400 | A. I. Petrunkevitch. 1949. A study of the structure classification and relationships of the Palaeozoic Arachnida based on the collections of the British Museum. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 37:69-315 [D. Smith/A. Kinchloe/M. Clapham] |