A Late Carboniferous fossil scorpion from the Piesberg, near Osnabrück, Germany | Zendy

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A Late Carboniferous fossil scorpion from the Piesberg, near Osnabrück, Germany

Author(s) -

Dunlop Jason A.,

Brauckmann Carsten,

Steur Hans

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

fossil record

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1860-1014

pISSN - 1435-1943

DOI - 10.1002/mmng.200700010

Subject(s) - carboniferous , westphalian sovereignty , pennsylvanian , paleontology , fauna , scorpion , paleozoic , geology , biology , ecology , structural basin , venom

A new fossil scorpion – only the second from the Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) of western Germany – is described from the Westphalian D of the Piesberg near Osnabrück, Germany. This slender and rather gracile specimen is very closely related to the stratigraphically contemporary Eoscorpius carbonarius Meek & Worthern, 1868 from Mazon Creek, Illinois, USA and is here assigned to E. cf. carbonarius . A precise placement is hindered by the need for revision of the late Carboniferous scorpion fauna. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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