Produits colliery, Flénu, pit 25, roof of Toriore vein (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 3.9° E: paleocoordinates 1.9° S, 12.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• Pit 25 at 720 m, roof of Torioire (=Abbaye) vein, top of the assise de Charleroi, Eikenberg zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale

• Variscan foreland basin
• Shale with plants and Arthropleura

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected in 1922

• 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 155628: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.04.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Myriapoda
 Arthropleurida - Arthropleuridae
Arthropleura mammata
Arthropleura mammata Salter 1863 millipede
MHNB I.G. 8701
Insecta
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
Parelthoblatta straeleni n. sp.
Parelthoblatta straeleni n. sp. Pruvost 1930 cockroach