Liévin, Assise de Bruay (Carboniferous of France)

Where: France (50.4° N, 2.8° E: paleocoordinates 1.5° S, 11.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian C (314.6 - 311.4 Ma)

• Faisceau de Six-Sillons, Assise de Bruay. Westphalian C.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified, pyritic, carbonaceous shale

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: Repository: Musée Gosselet, Lille, France

Primary reference: P. R. Racheboeuf. 1992. Valloisella lievinensis n. g. n. sp.: nouveau xiphosure carbonifère du Nord de la France. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1992(6):336-342 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57698: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 19.12.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Xiphosura
 Xiphosurida -
Valloisella lievinensis n. gen. n. sp.
Valloisella lievinensis n. gen. n. sp. Racheboeuf 1992
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca - Euestheriidae
Euestheria bourozi clam shrimp