Commentry (USNM coll) (Carboniferous of France)

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 shale

• Fossiliferous layers are of fresh water origin and are allochthonous, apparently deposited by streams in delta-like, detritic sediments along the shore of a lake. Dextral strike-slip transtension in an intermontane setting following the Variscan orogeny.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125735: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 19.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
Phyloblatta alutacea n. sp.
Phyloblatta alutacea n. sp. Handlirsch 1906 winged insect
USNM 38841