Lens mines, pit 5, Arago vein (Carboniferous to of France)

Where: Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (50.4° N, 2.8° E: paleocoordinates 1.0° S, 12.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian C to Westphalian C (314.6 - 307.5 Ma)

• Roof of the Arago vein

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale

• Variscan foreland basin
• Shale with Anthracomya, Carbonia, Estheriella, and plant debris

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Musee Houiller de l'Universite de Lille

Primary reference: P. Pruvost. 1912. Note sur les araignées du terrain houiller du Nord de la France. Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord 41:85-100 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151697: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.10.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Aphantomartidae
"Kreischeria villeti n. sp." = Aphantomartus pustulatus
"Kreischeria villeti n. sp." = Aphantomartus pustulatus Scudder 1884
MGL 1857