Commentry (BMNH coll): Gzhelian, France
collected by Henri Fayol
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta
- Palaeodictyoptera
- Dictyoneuridae
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Microdictya latipennis n. sp.
Handlirsch 1919
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1 specimen | |||||||||
BMNH I.7287 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
= Goldenbergia vaillanti
Brongniart 1894
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Bolton 1925 | |||||||||
Without reference to Handlirsch's species | ||||||||||
= Microdictya latipennis n. sp.
Handlirsch 1919
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Handlirsch 1937 | |||||||||
Goldenbergia handlirschi n. sp.
Bolton 1925
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Bolton 1925 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Microdictya handlirschi | ||||||||||
BMNH I.7283 | ||||||||||
Insecta
- Caloneurodea
- Caloneuridae
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Caloneura dawsoni
(Brongniart 1885)
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Bolton 1925 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
original and current combination Caloneura dawsonii | ||||||||||
BMNH I.7292 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Caloneura subtilis n. sp.
Bolton 1925
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Bolton 1925 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Caloneura dawsonii | ||||||||||
BMNH I.7280 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Insecta
- Eoblattidae
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Eoblatta robusta
(Brongniart 1894)
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Bolton 1925 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
BMNH I.7278 | ||||||||||
Insecta
- Cnemidolestodea
- Ctenoptilidae
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Eoblattina complexa n. gen., n. sp.
Bolton 1925
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Bolton 1925 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Ctenoptilus elongatus | ||||||||||
BMNH I.7279 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Insecta
- Spiloblattinidae
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Sysciophlebia expansa n. sp.
Bolton 1925
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Bolton 1925 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Sysciophlebia praepilata | ||||||||||
BMNH I.7288 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Insecta
- Blattodea
- Compsoblattidae
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Phyloblatta spathulata n. sp.
Bolton 1925
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Bolton 1925 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Etoblattina ovata | ||||||||||
BMNH I.7295 (Phyloblatta monubilis n.f. spathulata) (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Insecta
- Phyloblattidae
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Phyloblatta rigida n. sp.
Bolton 1925
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Bolton 1925 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Kunguroblattina schmitzi | ||||||||||
BMNH I.7296 (Phyloblatta gallica n.f. rigida) (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Anthracoblattina intermedia n. sp.
Bolton 1925
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Bolton 1925 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Elaphroblatta intermedia | ||||||||||
BMNH I.7281 (Anthracoblattina gigantea n.f. intermedia) (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Kafar gallus n. gen., n. sp.
Handlirsch 1920
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Handlirsch 1920 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Phyloblatta gaudryi | ||||||||||
BMNH I.7276 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Stephanoblatta discifera n. sp.
Handlirsch 1920
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Handlirsch 1920 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
BMNH I.7282 (2 measurements) | ||||||||||
= Phyloblatta brongniarti
Handlirsch 1906
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Bolton 1925 | |||||||||
synonym of Phyloblatta gaudryi | ||||||||||
Phyloblatta brongniarti n.f. furcata, without reference to Handlirsch's species | ||||||||||
Phyloblatta gaudryi
(Agnus 1903)
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Bolton 1925 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
BMNH I.7277 (Phyloblatta gaudryi n.f. lapparenti) | ||||||||||
= Stephanoblatta boltoni n. sp.
Handlirsch 1937
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Handlirsch 1937 | |||||||||
synonym of Phyloblatta gaudryi | ||||||||||
Insecta
- Paoliida
- Blattinopsidae
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Blattinopsis fimbriata n. sp.
Bolton 1925
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Bolton 1925 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
BMNH I.7284 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Blattinopsis ornata n. sp.
Bolton 1925
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Bolton 1925 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
BMNH I.7291 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Paramblypteriformes
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Palaeoniscus decorus n. sp.
Egerton 1850
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Egerton 1850 | |||||||||
recombined as Amblypterus decorus | ||||||||||
BMNH P 607 and 3420, part and counterpart; 82 other specimens | ||||||||||
Palaeonisciformes
- Igornichthyidae
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Commentrya traquairi
Sauvage 1888
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Sauvage 1888 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | France |
Coordinates: | 46.3° North, 2.8° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 2.1° South, 15.4° East |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Pennsylvanian |
Stage: | Gzhelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 5 |
Key time interval: | Gzhelian | ||
Age range of interval: | 303.70000 - 298.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Commentry Shales | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Stephanian |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | very fine lithified mudstone | ||
Lithology description: "The rock in which the insects occur is a very fine grained mudstone, which may well have accumulated by the deposition of fine sediment in enclosed or lake-like waters." Bolton, 1917 | |||
Environment: | lacustrine deltaic indet. | Tectonic setting: | pull-apart basin |
Geology comments: Fossiliferous layers are of fresh water origin and are allochthonous, apparently deposited by streams in delta-like, detritic sediments along the shore of a lake. Dextral strike-slip transtension in an intermontane setting following the Variscan orogeny. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collectors: | Henri Fayol |
Collection method comments: Collected by Fayol (mining engineer and later director at Compagnie de Commentry-Fourchambeau-Decazeville) collected during his early study on the stratigraphy and sediments of the Commentry coal basin. |
Metadata
Database number: | 124916 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | J. Karr, M. Clapham |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
Created: | 2012-02-29 02:28:25 | Last modified: | 2013-11-11 10:06:42 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-02-29 02:28:25 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
48902. | A. Handlirsch. 1919. Revision der Paläozoischen Insekten. Denkschriften der Akademie Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 96:511-592 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
51429 | H. Bolton. 1925. Fossil insects from the coal measures of Commentry. British Museum (Natural History), Fossil Insects 2:1-56 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
40459 | F. M. Carpenter. 1961. Studies on Carboniferous Insects of Commentry, France: Part III The Caloneurodea. Psyche 68:145-153 [M. Clapham/J. Karr] | |
83690 | P. M. G. Egerton. 1850. Palichthyologic Notes. No. 3.—On the Ganoidei Heterocerci. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 6(1-2) [E. Dunne/S. Fasey] | |
49952 | A. Handlirsch. 1920. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der palaeozoischen Blattarien. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 129:431-461 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
48511 | A. Handlirsch. 1937. Neue Untersuchungen über die fossilen Insekten mit Ergänzungen und Nachträgen sowie Ausblicken auf phylogenetische, palaeogeographische und allgemein biologische Probleme. I. Teil. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 48:1-140 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
87125 | H.-E. Sauvage. 1888. Poissons du terrain houllier de Commentry. Bull. Soc. Industr. miner. St-Etienne 2:39-120 [J. Flannery-Sutherland/J. Flannery-Sutherland/J. Flannery-Sutherland] |