Les Fumades (Eocene of France)

Where: Gard, France (44.0° N, 4.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 0.3° E)

When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• Age given as Sannoisien

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; marl

• Half-graben formed along a simple listric fault (Ales fault) responsible for the development of a hangingwall roll-over, and north-west divergence of syn-rift infill.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: N. Theobald. 1937. Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France. Bulletin Mensuel (Mémoires) de la Société des Sciences de Nancy 1:1-473 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122406: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 24.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Diptera - Bibionidae
"Plecia longiventris n. sp." = Penthetria longiventris, "Bibio cf. conformans" = Bibio celasensis, Plecia angustiventris, Plecia dumasi, "Plecia foersteri" = Plecia foersteri, "Plecia splendida" = Plecia foersteri
"Plecia longiventris n. sp." = Penthetria longiventris Theobald 1937 march fly
Nimes Museum 7(3)
"Bibio cf. conformans" = Bibio celasensis Theobald 1937 march fly
Nimes Museum 14
Plecia angustiventris Theobald 1937 love bug
Nimes Museum 6, 4, 11, 1(10)
Plecia dumasi Theobald 1937 love bug
Nimes Museum 16 coll Roux
"Plecia foersteri" = Plecia foersteri Theobald 1937 love bug
Nimes Museum 8, 2, 12, 24, 25, 21(23)
"Plecia splendida" = Plecia foersteri Theobald 1937 love bug
Nimes Museum 19, 5
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Oligocassida melaena n. gen. n. sp.
Oligocassida melaena n. gen. n. sp. Theobald 1937 tortoise beetle
Nimes Museum 18