Bray coal mine, shaft 1, vein at 954 m (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 4.1° E: paleocoordinates 1.9° S, 12.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• 551 meters below the Petit-Buisson marine level (Eikenberg zone)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, gray shale

• Variscan foreland basin
• Gray shale with freshwater shells

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by F. Racheneur

• Repository: collection of F. Racheneur in Wasmes

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 155632: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Myriapoda
 Arthropleurida - Arthropleuridae
Arthropleura mammata Salter 1863 millipede