Saint-François pit, Montceau-les-Mines (Carboniferous of France)

Where: Saône-et-Loire, France (46.7° N, 4.4° E: paleocoordinates 2.3° S, 16.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Great Seams Formation, Stephanian B (301.5 - 301.0 Ma)

• Great Seams formation = Assise de Montceau; Nodule-rich layer towards the top of the formation, overlying the first coal seam

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, concretionary, ferruginous siltstone

• 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.
• "sideritic nodules that were collected [...] from clayey siltstones and silty claystones" (Perrier and Charbonnier 2014)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, concretion

Collection methods: Museum d'Histoire naturelle d'Autun

Primary reference: C. Poplin. 2001. Le genre Bourbonnella (Actinopterygii, Aeduellidae) : révision et description d’une nouvelle espèce du Stéphanien (Carbonifère supérieur) de Montceau-les-Mines (Massif Central, France). Annales de Paléontologie 87(4):231-248 [E. Dunne/S. Fasey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229006: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 31.01.2023

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Aeduelliformes - Aeduellidae
Bourbonnella sottyi n. sp.
Bourbonnella sottyi n. sp. Anonymous 1972
SMHNA Sotty I-00001a, b (holotype)