Where: France (43.6° N, 3.3° E: paleocoordinates 0.8° N, 19.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Merifons Member (Salagou Formation), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• Found just above the 500 marker beds, in the basal part of Merifrons Member. Upper part of Salagou Formation (Merifrons Member) is primarily Kungurian age but inferred to be Artinskian at its base, 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 siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J. Lapeyrie

• Repository: Musée Fleury, Lodève

Primary reference: A. Nel, G. Gand, J. Garric and J. Lapeyrie. 1999. The first recorded Protozygopteran Insects from the Upper Permian of France. Palaeontology 42(1):83-97 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117228: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 17.09.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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