Bascoup colliery (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.5° N, 4.3° 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: terrestrial; lithified shale

• Variscan foreland basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by J. de Dorlodot

• Repository: Musée Houiller de l'Université de Louvain

Primary reference: P. Pruvost. 1922. Les arachnides fossiles du houiller de Belgique. Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 41:349-355 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155638: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Anthracomartidae
"Brachypyge celtica" = Maiocercus celticus
"Brachypyge celtica" = Maiocercus celticus Pocock 1902
MHL 8490