Pit 10 at Grisoeil, roof of vein 6 (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 3.9° E: paleocoordinates 1.9° S, 12.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• Assise de Charleroi, Asch zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale

• Variscan foreland basin
• Shale with plants and Arthropleura

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Musée Houiller de l'Université de Louvain (counterpart at Service Géologique de Belgique)

Primary reference: P. Pruvost. 1922. Les arachnides fossiles du houiller de Belgique. Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 41:349-355 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155636: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Amblypygi -
"Protophrynus carbonarius" = Sorellophrynus carbonarius
"Protophrynus carbonarius" = Sorellophrynus carbonarius Petrunkevitch 1913 whip spider
MHL 8265