La Louvière (Hainaut) (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.5° N, 4.2° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 7.5° S, 9.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Flénu Formation, Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

• Variscan foreland basin
• Associated with Coal mining

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Brussels

Primary reference: P. J. Van Beneden and E. Coemans. 1867. Un insecte et un gastéropode pulmoné du terrain houiller. Bulletins de L'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Deuxième Série 23:384-401 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123821: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 31.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Dicondylia - Omaliaidae
Omalia macroptera n. gen. n. sp.
Omalia macroptera n. gen. n. sp. Van Beneden and Coemans 1867 winged insect