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

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 carbonariusi> Meek & Worthern, 1868 from Mazon Creek, Illinois, USA and is here assigned to Ei>. cf. carbonariusi>. A precise placement is hindered by the need for revision of the late Carboniferous scorpion fauna.