Mariemont coal mine, Placard pit, roof of La Hestre vein (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.5° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 2.1° S, 12.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• Genck 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 H. Deltenre

• 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 155633: 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 maillieuxi n. sp.
Arthropleura maillieuxi n. sp. Pruvost 1930 millipede
MHNB I.G. 8631