Gipcy I core, 106 m, Aumance basin (Permian of France)

Where: France (46.5° N, 3.1° E: paleocoordinates 0.5° S, 16.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Schistes de Buxières Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• Horizon assigned to lower Autunien

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by L. Bougneres

• Repository: Faculté des Sciences de Reims, Laboratoire de Géologie

Primary reference: F. Laurentiaux-Vieira and D. Laurentiaux. 1963. Sur quelques restes noveaux d'Arachnides du terrain houiller. Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord 83:23-29 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147002: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Scorpiones - Eoscorpiidae
"Lichnophthalmus sp." = Eoscorpius
"Lichnophthalmus sp." = Eoscorpius Meek and Worthen 1868 scorpion