Armissan quarry, near Narbonne (MNHN collection) (Oligocene of France)

Where: Aude, France (43.2° N, 3.1° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 0.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• The age of the deposit has been assigned by Schmidt-Kittler (1971) to the later Oligocene (Stampian).

Environment/lithology: pond; limestone

• The specimen is from a freshwater (probably marshy) limestone deposit. The Narbonne Basin was formed within an irregular depression located on the Eastern Corbières thrust sheet. During late Oligocene and early Miocene (Aquitanian) times, this piggyback basin was filled with non-marine sediments including lacustrine and palustrine carbonates, evaporites (gypsum), alluvial fine-grained siliciclastics, and fanglomerates.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: A. Nel. 1987. Un nouveau Calopterygidae fossile des laminites Oligocènes D'Armissan (Aude, France). Revue Française d'Entomologie (N.S.) 9(3):147-148 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120819: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 22.11.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Odonata - Calopterygidae
Sapho armissani n. sp.
Sapho armissani n. sp. Nel 1987 broad-winged damselfly
MNHN B47290