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
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 | |
Omalia macroptera n. gen. n. sp.
Omalia macroptera n. gen. n. sp. Van Beneden and Coemans 1867 winged insect |