Where: Belgium (50.8° N, 5.1° E: paleocoordinates 46.3° N, 2.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Landenien age is now equivalent to the Sparnacian (basal Eocene) in continental settings

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, amber

Collected by Peeters

• Sent to Meunier by Rutot. Repository possibly Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Bruxelles.

Primary reference: F. Meunier. 1900. Un insecte névroptère dans une résine du Landénien de Léau (Brabant). Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique 27:76-79 [C. Labandeira/A. Spencer-Lee/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151684: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.10.2013

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