Montceau-les-Mines (BMNH coll) (Carboniferous of France)

Where: France (46.7° N, 4.4° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 0.5° S, 16.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Stephanian B (301.4 - 300.9 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

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Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Araneae - Palaeothelidae
"Eothele montceauensis" = Palaeothele montceauensis
"Eothele montceauensis" = Palaeothele montceauensis Selden 1996 spider
BMNH In. 62050(a)