F19, Arièges, Lodève Basin (Permian of France)

Where: France (43.6° N, 3.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 20.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Merifons Member (Salagou Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Between the 500-800 marker beds. Merifrons Member is primarily Kungurian age, according to Michel et al. (2015), constrained by Artinskian radiometric ages in the underlying Octon Mb.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; lithified claystone

• Small ponds on a playa lake; Lodève Basin, half-graben
• Fossils found in rills or siltstone channels

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J. Lapeyrie

• Repository: Musée Fleury, Lodève

Primary reference: O. Béthoux, A. Nel, J. Lapeyrie and G. Gand. 2005. New data on Paleozoic grylloblattid insects (Neoptera). Journal of Paleontology 79:125-138 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 103637: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.01.2011, edited by Jered Karr

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diaphanopterodea - Martynoviidae
Martynoviidae indet.2 Tillyard 1932 winged insect
LdLAP 7, 135, 307, 402ab, 404
Salagouneura chimaira2 Béthoux et al. 2003 winged insect
LdLAP 133
Phaneroneura minuta2 Béthoux et al. 2003 winged insect
LdLAP 19
Martynovia aff. insignis2 Tillyard 1932 winged insect
LdLAP 148
 Orthoptera - Proparagryllacrididae
Crinoedischia lapeyriei n. sp.3 Fernandes et al. 2015 grasshopper
Ld LAP 5A bis
 Paoliida - Anthracoptilidae
Strephocladus gandi n. sp.6 Prokop et al. 2015 winged insect
Ld LAP 313
 Grylloblattodea - Liomopteridae
Depressopterum minutus n. sp. Béthoux et al. 2005 ice crawler
Ld LAP 136AB
 Cnemidolestodea - Tococladidae
Tococladus garrici n. sp.1 Béthoux et al. 2003 winged insect
LdLAP 308ab, 141ab, 309ab
 Caloneurodea - Lodevogrammatidae
Lodevogramma pumilia n. gen. n. sp.5 Nel et al. 2023 winged insect
Ld LAP 2022.2.1, 2022.3.1
Lodevogramma pumilia5 Nel et al. 2023 winged insect
LdLAP 340 ab
 Dicondylia -
Bethouxia ariegensis n. gen. n. sp.6
Bethouxia ariegensis n. gen. n. sp.6 Prokop et al. 2015 winged insect
Ld LAP 405
 Hemiptera - Scytinopteridae
Euroscytina lutevanorum n. gen. n. sp.6
Euroscytina lutevanorum n. gen. n. sp.6 Prokop et al. 2015 true bug
96/6/86
 Hemiptera - Archescytinidae
Archescytina "sp. A"6 Tillyard 1926 true bug
Ld LAP 134, 451
 Meganisoptera - Meganeuridae
Curvitupus ariegensis n. gen. n. sp.4
Curvitupus ariegensis n. gen. n. sp.4 Nel et al. 2009 griffinfly
LdLAP 33A, 33B, 35A-B