Cuvinot pit, Boulangère vein, Anzin (Carboniferous of France)

Where: Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (50.4° N, 2.8° E: paleocoordinates 2.1° S, 11.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• Faisceau de Meunière

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale

• Variscan foreland basin
• "In a shale filled with Neuropteris pseudogigantea"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Paul Bertrand in 1913

• Repository: Musee Houiller de l'Universite 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 155424: 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 1875