Where: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (43.5° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 2.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• "The ‘insect formation’ is 2.5 m thick, divided in two parts that correspond to two very different environmental conditions. The first (lower) episode is remarkable by its lateral monotony of facies on a distance of 6 km at least, in the outcrops observed on the northwest of Aix-en-Provence. This lower episode is distinguished from the rest of the ‘insect formation’ and from the whole formation of Aix-en-Provence by the presence of a very numerous thin limestone laminae. The second (upper) episode is remarkable by the presence of many silici- fied laminae. The fauna in this level is also very well preserved"….This collection consists of unspecified layers
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression
Collection methods: Museum Aix
Primary reference: F. Meunier. 1914. Nouvelles recherches sur quelques Insectes du Sannoisien D' Aix-en-Provence. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, Quatrième Série 14:187-198 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122489: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 31.12.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•In spite of this, aquatic insects remain comparatively rare among the 30,000 fossil insects one of us (A.N.) collected at the locality."
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Tipula bouati n. sp.1
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Velia bouatia n. sp.
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Termes siruguei n. sp.2
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