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

Dunlop, J. A.; Brauckmann, C.; Steur, H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/mmng.200700010

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https://doi.org/10.1002/mmng.200700010

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https://doi.org/10.1002/mmng.200700010

© Author(s) 2008. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

01 Feb 2008

| 01 Feb 2008

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

J. A. Dunlop, C. Brauckmann, and H. Steur

Abstract. 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.

doi:10.1002/mmng.200700010