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

摘要

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.