Arachnida - Scorpiones - Proscorpiidae
Alternative combination: Eoscorpius glaber
Full reference: B. N. Peach. 1883. A new species of fossil scorpions from the Carboniferous rocks of Scotland and the English borders, with a review of the genera Eoscorpius and Mazonia of Messrs Meek and Worthen. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 30:397-412
Belongs to Archaeoctonus according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013
See also Kjellesvig-Waering 1986, Peach 1883, Petrunkevitch 1949, Petrunkevitch 1953 and Pocock 1911
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: GSE 5858. Its type locality is River Esk, 5 miles south of Langholm, which is in a Chadian marine siliciclastic in the Cementstone-Sandstone Series Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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