Rieu-du-Coeur colliery, pit 2, 1260 m depth (Carboniferous to of Belgium)

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
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
Miroblatta costalis n. gen. n. sp.
Miroblatta costalis n. gen. n. sp. Laurentiaux-Vieira and Laurentiaux 1987 cockroach
IRHNB 15576