Where: Madagascar (23.8° S, 44.8° E: paleocoordinates 23.8° S, 44.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sakoa Group, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• Coal-bearing series above diamictites. Insects assigned to upper coal level. Artinskian according to Catuneanu et al. (2005).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Otto Appert; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: R. Paulian. 1965. Découverte d’une faune entomologique permienne à Madagascar. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris 260:4028-4030 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117289: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 18.09.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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