Lens mines, pit 11, bowette 115 (Carboniferous of France)

Where: Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (50.4° N, 2.8° E: paleocoordinates 1.5° S, 11.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian C (314.6 - 309.8 Ma)

• Roof of the passage below Amé, at the base of Faisceau d'Ernestine

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale

• Variscan foreland basin
• Shale with Calamites

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: 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 155429: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Myriapoda
 Arthropleurida - Arthropleuridae
Arthropleura sp. Jordan 1854 millipede
MGL 1877