Amercoeur Collieries (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 4.4° E: paleocoordinates 2.1° S, 12.2° E)

When: Yeadonian (318.1 - 314.6 Ma)

• 33.8 m below vein Sainte-Barbe de Ransart

•33.8 m Below Westpahlian/Namurian Boudary

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; black shale and coal

• Variscan foreland basin
• "Shale gray-black with white stripes (with Many Lycopodiales tubulations and pyritic) the roof of an earthy vein"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Institut Royal de Sciences Naturelles de Bruxelles (Belgique

Primary reference: F. Laurentiaux-Vieira and D. Laurentiaux. 1986. Paléodictyoptère nouveau du Namurien belge. Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord 105:187-193 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128630: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 14.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera - Straeleniellidae
Straeleniella namurensis n. gen. n. sp.
Straeleniella namurensis n. gen. n. sp. Laurentiaux-Vieira and Laurentiaux 1986 winged insect
IG 11312