Mariemont coal mine, Sainte-Henriette pit, roof of Veine-aux-Laies (Carboniferous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.5° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 12.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• Asch zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, gray shale

• Variscan foreland basin
• Gray shale with freshwater shells

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by H. Deltenre

• Repository: Ecole des Mines de Mons and Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle 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 155631: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Myriapoda
 Arthropleurida - Arthropleuridae
Arthropleura mammata
Arthropleura mammata Salter 1863 millipede
MHNB I.G. 8631
 Euphoberiida - Euphoberiidae
Euphoberia ferox
Euphoberia ferox Salter 1863 millipede
Ecoles des Mines du Mons
Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Anthracomartidae
Brachypyge carbonis
Brachypyge carbonis Woodward 1878
Ecoles des Mines du Mons