Sainte-Hélène pit, Montceau-les-Mines (Langiaux coll) (Carboniferous of France)

Where: France (46.7° N, 4.3° E: paleocoordinates 2.3° S, 16.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stephanian B (301.5 - 301.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, concretionary, ferruginous mudstone

• This intramontane basin forms a 40-km-long, continuous band of Late Pennsylvanian deposits, bounded by two Variscan fault systems. Dextral strike-slip transtension in an intermontane setting following the Variscan orogeny.
• External moulds in clay ironstone nodules

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, concretion

Collection methods: Repository: Musée des Fossiles de "La Physiophile" at Montceau-les-Mines

Primary reference: J. Langiaux and D. Sotty. 1976. Première découverte d'un myriapode dans le Paléozoïque supérieur du Massif Central français. Revue Périodique de "La Physiophile" 85:42-46 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161212: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Myriapoda
 Chilognatha - Xyloiulidae
Blanziulus parriati n. gen. n. sp.
Blanziulus parriati n. gen. n. sp. Langiaux and Sotty 1976 millipede
76-H-1-A/B
 Amynilyspedida - Amynilyspedidae
Amynilyspes fatimae
Amynilyspes fatimae Racheboeuf et al. 2004 millipede