Spoil heap, pit 11, Noeux-les-Mines (Verquigneul), Pas-de-Calais (Carboniferous of France)

Where: France (50.5° N, 2.7° E: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 11.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• Top of Westphalian B or base of Westphalian C

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale

• Variscan foreland basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Student of M. Delrue in 1929

• Repository: Musée Géologique de Lille

Primary reference: D. Laurentiaux. 1949. Un insecte nouveau (Breyeriidae) du terrain houiller du Pas-de-Calais. Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord 69:47-54 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152784: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera - Breyeriidae
"Breyeriopsis delruei n. gen. n. sp." = Breyeria delruei
"Breyeriopsis delruei n. gen. n. sp." = Breyeria delruei Laurentiaux 1949 winged insect
Musée Houiller de l'Université de Lille, B29