Vendin-lès-Béthune, old Annezin pit 2, assise A2 (Carboniferous of France)

Where: France (50.5° N, 2.6° E: paleocoordinates 2.3° S, 11.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• Faisceau d'Olympe

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Variscan foreland basin
• "Shale with Bothrodendron punctatum, Sphenopteris hoeninghausi"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by Paul Bertrand

• Repository: Musée Houiller de Lille

Primary reference: P. Pruvost. 1919. Introduction à l'Étude du Terrain Houiller du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais: la Faune Continentale du Terrain Houiller du Nord de la France 1-584 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155422: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Myriapoda
 Arthropleurida - Arthropleuridae
Arthropleura maillieuxi Pruvost 1930 millipede
MGL 1881