Charentese amber, Archingeay-Les-Nouillers, subunit A2sm1-2 (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Font-de-Benon Quarry

Where: Poitou-Charentes, France (45.9° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• "dated as Uppermost Albian (100 Myr) by a palynological study"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

• "It is derived from Cretaceous estuarine and coastal sands, which is erosive on marine limestone of Tithonian age. The basal part of the sand yields lignitic and clayey lenses with fossil plants and numerous amber pieces"

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, amber

Collection methods: Repository: Université de Rennes 1

Primary reference: P. F. D. Cockx, R. C. McKellar, and V. Perrichot. 2016. First records of the subfamilies Bethylinae (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) and Cleptinae (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) in Upper Cretaceous amber from France. Cretaceous Research 68:1-8 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180993: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.08.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Chrysididae
Sphaerocleptes neraudeaui n. gen. n. sp.
Sphaerocleptes neraudeaui n. gen. n. sp. Cockx et al. 2016 cuckoo wasp
IGR.ARC-419.1