Monceau-Fontaine colliery, Monceau-sur-Sambre near Charleroi (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 4.4° E: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 12.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian C (314.6 - 309.8 Ma)

• Mittleres Obercarbon

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• Variscan foreland basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by M. Stainier

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 123952: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.02.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Dicondylia -
Leipsanon reticulatum n. gen. n. sp.
Leipsanon reticulatum n. gen. n. sp. Handlirsch 1906 winged insect