Montceau-les-Mines (BMNH coll) (Carboniferous of France)
Where: France (46.7° N, 4.4° E: paleocoordinates 2.3° S, 16.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Stephanian B (304.8 - 303.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, concretionary, ferruginous mudstone
• This intramontane basin forms a 40-km-long, continuous band of Late Pennsylvanian deposits, bounded by two Variscan fault systems. Dextral strike-slip transtension in an intermontane setting following the Variscan orogeny.
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, concretion
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: P. A. Selden. 1996. First fossil mesothele spider, from the Carboniferous of France. Revue Suisse de Zoologie hors série:585-596 [D. Smith/D. Smith/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34902: authorized by Dena Smith, entered by April Kinchloe on 14.10.2003, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Eothele montceauensis" = Palaeothele montceauensis
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