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XV.—On some 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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

B. N. Peach
B. N. Peach
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Scotland
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In the progress of the Geological Survey of the South of Scotland, specimens referable to the genus Eoscorpius have been gradually accumulating. In 1876 J. Bennie, Fossil Collector to the Survey, obtained an example from the Coal-measures of Fife. Since then fragments have been disinterred by him and by A. Macconochie, also Fossil Collector to the Survey, from the Calciferous Sandstone series in the counties of Edinburgh, Berwick, Roxburgh, Dumfries, and Northumberland and Cumberland. It was not till the spring of last year (1880) that they began to be found in such a state as to necessitate a description of the fossils. In the summer of that year A. Macconochie obtained an almost entire example from the neighbourhood of Langholm, in Dumfriesshire. This year (1881) J. Bennie has secured several good though fragmentary specimens from the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, while A. Macconochie has sent in several from the counties of Berwick and Northumberland. In my capacity of Acting Palæontologist, I have had an opportunity of studying these remains, and by the permission of A. C. Ramsay, LL.D., F.R.S., Director General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and Professor A. Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S., Director of the Geological Survey of Scotland, I have been allowed to describe them.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , 1881 , pp. 397 - 412
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1883

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References

page 398 note * “American Journ. Science and Arts,” 2d ser., vol. xlv. p. 25.

page 407 note * Vide Messrs Meek and Worthen's description in the “Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Illinois,” vol. iii. pp. 560–562. Figs. 23 to 23b are a reproduction of the woodcut accompanying their description.

page 408 note * “American Journ. Science and Arts,” 2d ser. vol. xlv. p. 25.

page 408 note † Vide Buckland's “Bridgewater Treatise,” vol. ii. pls. 46′ and 46″, where there is a reproduction of Corda's figures. Fig. 25 is a copy after Buckland of the carapace of C. senior enlarged, showing the mesial and lateral eyes.

page 408 note ‡ “Geological Survey of Illinois,” vol. iii. pp. 563–565.

page 409 note * The lithographer has shaded this space as if it were a portion of another segment, a mistake which was not observed till the plates were struck off.

page 410 note * This scorpion agrees very closely with the description of Gervais of his Scorpio Cummingii in Walckenaer's “Insectes Aptéres,” and would fall under the genus Ischnurus of Koch.