Commentry (Sorbonne coll) (Carboniferous of France)

Where: France (46.3° N, 2.8° E: paleocoordinates 2.1° S, 15.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Commentry Shales Formation, Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Stephanian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine deltaic; lithified shale

• Fossiliferous layers are of fresh water origin and are allochthonous, apparently deposited by streams in delta-like, detritic sediments along the shore of a lake. Dextral strike-slip transtension in an intermontane setting following the Variscan orogeny.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the MNHN

• Found by Laurentiaux in the collections of the Sorbonne (Paris) and subsequently deposited in the Institute de Paleontologie in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.

Primary reference: J. Kukalová. 1970. Revisional study of the Order Palaeodictyoptera in the Upper Carboniferous shales of Commentry, France. Part III. Psyche 77(1):1-44 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121980: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.12.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera - Dictyoneuridae
Stenodictya laurentiauxi n. sp.
Stenodictya laurentiauxi n. sp. Kukalová 1970 winged insect
Stenodictya lobata in Laurentiaux 1952