Levant colliery, Flénu, roof of Petite Cornaillette vein (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 3.9° E: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 12.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Flénu Formation, Westphalian C (314.6 - 311.4 Ma)

• Assise du Flénu, lower part, 150 m below Petit-Buisson, Maurage zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Variscan foreland basin

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Musée Houiller de Louvain

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 155625: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Protorthoptera - Pachytylopsidae
Pachytylopsis deriodoti n. sp. Pruvost 1930 winged insect
MHL 7999