Fontaine-l'Evêque coal mine, pit 2, roof of vein 6: Westphalian B, Belgium
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Myriapoda
- Arthropleurida
- Arthropleuridae
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Arthropleura sp.
Jordan 1854
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Belgium |
| Coordinates: | 50.4° North, 4.3° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.9° South, 12.4° 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: | 317.00000 - 314.60000 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: | 155642 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2014-04-20 16:25:56 | Last modified: | 2014-04-20 16:25:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-04-20 16:25:56 |
| 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] |