Charbonnages Réunis de Nord: Bashkirian, Belgium

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Eurypterida - Mycteropidae
Mycterops matthieui Pruvost 1925
see common names

Geography
Country:Belgium State/province:Wallonia County:Hainaut
Coordinates: 50.4° North, 4.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.0° South, 11.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Pennsylvanian
Stage: Bashkirian 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 4
Key time interval: Bashkirian
Age range of interval: 323.2 - 315.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Belgian Coal Measure Formation:Charleroi Member:Mons
Stratigraphy comments: 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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Lithology description: schiste à plantes
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Charleroi eurypterid locality 2
Database number:225500
Authorizer:R. Plotnick Enterer:R. Plotnick
Modifier:R. Plotnick
Created:2022-05-12 15:27:01 Last modified:2023-10-30 15:52:45
Access level:the public Released:2022-05-12 15:27:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

81653. 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]

Secondary references:

81645 O. E. Tetlie and P. Van Roy. 2006. A reappraisal of Eurypterus dumonti Stainier, 1917 and its position within the Adelophthalmidae Tollerton, 1989. Bulletin de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 76:79-90 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]