Produits colliery, Sainte-Félicité pit, no 23, Flénu (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 3.9° E: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 12.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Variscan foreland basin

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by Persenaire

Primary reference: A. Handlirsch. 1904. Les insectes houillers de la Belgique. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 3:1-20 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151844: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.10.2013, edited by Jered Karr

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera -
Mecynoptera splendida n. gen. n. sp.
Mecynoptera splendida n. gen. n. sp. Handlirsch 1904 winged insect