Eoscorpius carbonarius

Eoscorpius carbonarius

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EoscorpiusPBDB
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida

Time the record covers

At most 7.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 314.6 Mya and 307.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 8 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferous315–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315.1 Mya306.9 Mya

8 occurrences of Eoscorpius carbonarius on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

8 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

2 formations

Carbondale — 41.34°N, 88.39°WCarbondale — 41.22°N, 88.22°WFlöz Zweibänke — 52.32°N, 8.01°E

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The named rock units Eoscorpius carbonarius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Eoscorpius carbonarius and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Eoscorpius carbonarius and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Eoscorpius carbonarius, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

4 references

Each of the 8 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Eoscorpius carbonarius

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEoscorpius through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek and Worthen 1868