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 mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Henri Fayol in 1880-1890

• Collected by Fayol (mining engineer and later director at Compagnie de Commentry-Fourchambeau-Decazeville) collected during his early study on the stratigraphy and sediments of the Commentry coal basin.

•"There can be little doubt therefore but that the collection of fossil insects now in the Manchester Museum was fonnecl by Brongniart himself, and given to his friend, Stirrup." Bolton, 1917

Primary reference: H. Bolton. 1917. The "Mark Stirrup" collection of fossil insects from the Coal Measures of Commentry (Allier), Central France. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 62(2):1-32 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123260: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 16.01.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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