GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : NMS NMS G.1987.7.136 –

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Arthropoda

    Class Arachnida

      Order Scorpiones
Fossil Name Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis Jeram
Type Status
Name History

Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis Jeram
Provenance
Registration No. NMS G.1987.7.136
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By National Museums of Scotland
Comments
Location
Country Scotland
Locality East Kirkton Quarry, Bathgate, West Lothian
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Bed 47, E. Kirkton Limestone, Oil Shale
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Visean Stage (Carboniferous Period) (329 – 346.7 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Jeram, A.J., 1994. Scorpions from the Visean of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland, with a revision of the infraorder Mesoscorpionina. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., 84, 283-299. fig, 3
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