Levant colliery, well 19, Flénu (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 3.9° E: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 12.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Flénu Formation, Westphalian C (314.6 - 309.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Variscan foreland basin

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by Persenaire

Primary reference: A. Handlirsch. 1904. Les insectes houillers de la Belgique. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 3:1-20 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123823: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 31.01.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Aphantomartidae
"Trigonomartus villeti" = Aphantomartus pustulatus1
"Trigonomartus villeti" = Aphantomartus pustulatus1 Scudder 1884
MHNB I.G. 3598
Myriapoda
 Arthropleurida - Arthropleuridae
Arthropleura britannica2
Arthropleura britannica2 Andree 1913 millipede
MHNB I.G. 3598
Insecta
 Dicondylia -
Progonopteryx belgica n. gen. n. sp., "Palaeopalara gracilis n. gen. n. sp." = Palaeopalara gracilis, "Anthracopalara falcipennis n. gen. n. sp." = Palaeopalara gracilis
Progonopteryx belgica n. gen. n. sp. Handlirsch 1904 winged insect
"Palaeopalara gracilis n. gen. n. sp." = Palaeopalara gracilis Handlirsch 1904 winged insect
"Anthracopalara falcipennis n. gen. n. sp." = Palaeopalara gracilis Handlirsch 1904 winged insect
Counterpart of Palaeopalara gracilis specimen
 Protorthoptera - Pachytylopsidae
Symballophlebia latipennis n. gen. n. sp.
Symballophlebia latipennis n. gen. n. sp. Handlirsch 1904 winged insect
1Pruvost 1922; 2Pruvost 1930