Bray coal mine, Nord no. 6 (Levant) bed, 400 m stage: Westphalian B, Belgium
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Myriapoda
- Arthropleurida
- Arthropleuridae
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Arthropleura sp.
Jordan 1854
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1 specimen | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Belgium |
Coordinates: | 50.4° North, 4.1° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 1.9° South, 12.3° East |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 | ||
Key time interval: | Westphalian B | ||
Age range of interval: | 317 - 314.6 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified "siliciclastic" | ||
Environment: | terrestrial indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Geology comments: Variscan foreland basin |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | adpression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: Repository: Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique |
Metadata
Database number: | 155641 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
Created: | 2014-04-20 16:23:26 | Last modified: | 2014-04-20 16:23:26 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-04-20 16:23:26 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
31422. | P. Pruvost. 1930. La faune continentale du terrain houiller de la Belgique. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 44:105-282 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham] |