Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 2.2° S, 12.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• Assise de Charleroi, Genck (=Mons) zone. Level about 145 m below the Quaregnon marine interval and approximately equivalent to the Dix Paumes vein.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, micaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Institut Royal de Sciences Naturelles de Bruxelles (Belgium)

Primary reference: F. Laurentiaux-Vieira and D. Laurentiaux. 1986. Présence du genre Zdenekia Kuk. (Protorthoptères Paoliides) dans le Westphalien inférieur de Belgique. Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord 105:195-201 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157028: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.06.2014

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