Also known as Cereste
Where: France (43.9° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 2.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Campagne-Calavon Formation, MP 23 (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• ~33.9 Ma to ~28.1 Ma, Oligocene, Rupelian (level MP 23, Reichenbacher & Philippe 1997).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Goret; reposited in the MNHN
• Coll Goret in Museum Paris
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 122536: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 02.01.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Bibionidae indet., Plecia sp., "Plecia constricta" = Plecia livida, "Plecia maculiventris n. sp." = Plecia livida, "Plecia goreti n. sp." = Plecia livida, "Plecia nervisinuata" = Penthetria nervisinuata, "Plecia cf. lugens" = Penthetria lugens
Bibionidae indet. Fleming 1821 march fly
Plecia sp. Wiedemann 1823 love bug | |
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"Indophaea falloti n. sp." = Stenolestes falloti
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Formicidae indet., "Brachyponera dubia" = Pachycondyla dubia
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Coleoptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 beetle | |
Hipporhinus heeri, "Sitona margarum" = Protainophthalmus margarus
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