Sainte-Louis pit, Montceau-les-Mines (Bailly coll) (Carboniferous of France)

Where: France (46.7° N, 4.4° E: paleocoordinates 2.3° S, 16.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stephanian B (304.8 - 303.4 Ma)

• The coal level exploited was named "Couche no 1". It is the top coal level from the "Faisceau des grandes couches de l’assise de Montceau." The insect is in a nodule from the "Couche à nodules", situated at around 20 m above the last level of coal of the "Couche no 1".

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: private collection of Jean-Marc Pouillon

Primary reference: J. Myskowiak, J. M. Pouillon, and A. Nel. 2015. The oldest record of the grylloblattodean family Euryptilonidae discovered in the Late Carboniferous of France. Comptes Rendus Palevol 14:1-4 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164829: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.12.2014, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Eoblattida - Euryptilonidae
Montceaupterum baillyi n. gen. n. sp.
Montceaupterum baillyi n. gen. n. sp. Myskowiak et al. 2015 insect
JMP.365.B
Myxini
 Myxiniformes -
Myxineidus gononorum n. gen. n. sp.
Myxineidus gononorum n. gen. n. sp. Poplin et al. 2001 hagfish