Saint-Nicolas pit, Saint-Éloy-les-Mines (Carboniferous of France)

Also known as Saint-Eloy-les-Mines

Where: France (46.2° N, 2.8° E: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 15.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stephanian B (301.5 - 301.0 Ma)

• "Middle Stephanian"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine deltaic; lithified shale

• Fossiliferous layers are of fresh water origin and are allochthonous, apparently deposited by streams in delta-like, detritic sediments along the shore of a lake. Dextral strike-slip transtension in an intermontane setting following the Variscan orogeny.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by L. Guillaume in 1923

• Repository: Bureau des Recherches Géologiques et Géophysiques (B.R.G.G.), Paris

Primary reference: D. Laurentiaux. 1949. Ocorrência de blatídos do género Eneriblatta, Teix. no Estefaniano de Saint-Eloy-Les-Mines (França). Boletim da Sociedade Geológica de Portugal 8:121-128 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152395: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.11.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
Eneriblatta elegantissima, Eneriblatta gallica n. sp.
Eneriblatta elegantissima Teixeira 1941 winged insect
B.R.G.G. Paris no. 42 (forma septentrionalis), 25A(B)
Eneriblatta gallica n. sp. Laurentiaux 1949 winged insect
B.R.G.G. Paris no. 40