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Fossil specimen : BGS GSE2038 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Arachnida

      Order Scorpiones

Fossil Name Pseudoarchaeoctonus dentidulatus Kjellesvig-Waering
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Pseudoarchaeoctonus dentidulatus Kjellesvig-Waering

Provenance
Registration No. GSE2038
Collector No name given.
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Carboniferous - Calciferous Sandstone Series. No Parent Sample Number given.
Location
Country Scotland
Locality River Esk - Glencartholm - Dumfries.
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Strathclyde Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Brigantian Substage (Carboniferous Period) – Chadian Substage (Carboniferous Period) (329 – 346.7 Ma B.P.)

[Closest ICS interval: Visean Age – Tournaisian Age ]

References
References

Kjellsevig-Waering 1986 Palaeontographica Americana Vol 55 p.69 Text-fig 22

Available Images

High resolution photographs

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/BGS/P819514.JP2

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Steroscopic photographs

/BGS/P820410.JP2

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