Where: France (50.0° N, 4.7° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 2.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Fépin Formation (Haybes Group), Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• « Lentille de schistes noirs intercalés dans les bancsd’arkose d’Haybes » (Paquet & Waterlot, 1970b), Formation de Fépin (Meilliez, 1984 ; Meilliez & Blieck, 1994).

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; shale and black shale

Size class: macrofossils

• Blieck et al. not certain whether the Pterygotus mentioned by Waterlot (1959) is the same as the Erieopterus describe by Paquet and Waterlot (1970). Came from same level.

Primary reference: A. Blieck, J. Cuvelier, and O. Thierry. 2013. Euryptérides des collections de paléontologie de Lille: Collections du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille (VII) et collections de l'Université Lille 1 (Catalogue I). Annales de la Société geologique du Nord 20:31-42 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26981: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 11.11.2002, edited by Roy Plotnick

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