Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 3.9° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 7.6° S, 9.0° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Westphalian A to Westphalian A (318.7 - 314.6 Ma)
• Roof of a passage stratigraphically neighboring the Quaregnon marine horizon, Assise de Charleroi, base of the Asch zone (Wn2A, Westphalian B1) or more probably the top of the Genck Zone (Wn1C, Westphalian A2)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, micaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: Repository: Institut Royal d'Histoire Naturelles de Belgique (Brussels)
Primary reference: F. Laurentiaux-Vieira and D. Laurentiaux. 1987. Un remarquable Archimylacride du Westphalien inférieur belge. Ancienneté du dimorphisme sexuel des Blattes. Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord 106:37-47 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 157029: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.06.2014
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Miroblatta costalis n. gen. n. sp.
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