La Grand'Combe, Cévennes coal basin (Carboniferous of France)

Where: France (44.2° N, 4.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° S, 16.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stephanian A (305.1 - 301.5 Ma)

• Roof of Le Pin bed, base of lower Stephanian

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Late orogenic extensional basin with typical half-graben geometry developed in over-thickened Variscan crust, similar to Basin-and-Range.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by G. Livet in 1923

• Repository: Musée houiller Faculté des Sciences de Lille

Primary reference: F. Laurentiaux-Vieira and D. Laurentiaux. 1963. Sur quelques restes noveaux d'Arachnides du terrain houiller. Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord 83:23-29 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147000: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
 Araneae - Arthrolycosidae
Protolycosa cebennensis n. sp.
Protolycosa cebennensis n. sp. Laurentiaux-Vieira and Laurentiaux 1963 spider