Also known as Charleroi eurypterid locality 2

Where: Wallonia, Belgium (50.4° N, 4.4° E: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 11.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Mons Member (Charleroi Formation), Bashkirian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)

• Pruvost 1925: roof of the Belle-et-Bonne layer; immediately under the Désirée vein, belongs to the lower half of the basal Charleroi base; zone A2-B1 of Zeiller. Terlie and Van Roy (2006) identify this as the Mons member of the Charleroi Fm.; Late Upper Bashkirian; Westphalian B

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Pruvost. 1925. Un Euryptéride nouveau du Terrain houillier de Charleroi . Annales de la Société géologique du Nord 48:143-151 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225500: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Roy Plotnick on 12.05.2022

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