Petite Sorcière colliery, Jemappes (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 3.9° E: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 12.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Variscan foreland basin
• Associated with Coal mining

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by Persenaire, Crepin in 1875

Primary reference: A. P. de Borre. 1875. Note sur des empreintes d'insectes fossiles, découvertes dans les schistes houillers des environs de Mons. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 18:XXXIX-XLII [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151406: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.09.2013, edited by Jered Karr

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Insecta
 Protorthoptera - Pachytylopsidae
Pachytylopsis persenairei n. gen. n. sp.
Pachytylopsis persenairei n. gen. n. sp. de Borre 1875 winged insect