Ormont coal mine, Saint-Xavier pit, roof of Léopold vein (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 4.5° E: paleocoordinates 2.1° S, 12.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• 600 m stage, roof of Léopold vein. Oupeye zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified shale

• Variscan foreland basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Severin in 1893

• Repository: Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique

Primary reference: P. Pruvost. 1930. La faune continentale du terrain houiller de la Belgique. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 44:105-282 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155624: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Dicondylia -
Severinula leopoldi n. gen. n. sp.
Severinula leopoldi n. gen. n. sp. Pruvost 1930 winged insect