Where: Bouches-Du-Rhone, 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
Primary reference: O. Heer. 1853. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Dritte Theil: Rhynchoten 1-138 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122876: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Aphrophora pinguicula n. sp.
Aphrophora pinguicula n. sp. Heer 1853 froghopper | |
Bythoscopus muscarius n. sp.
Bythoscopus muscarius n. sp. Heer 1853 leafhopper | |
Eurydema impudica n. sp.
Eurydema impudica n. sp. Heer 1853 stink bug | |
"Pachymerus pulchellus" = Aphanus pulchellus1, "Pachymerus murchisoni" = Aphanus murchisonae, "Pachymerus bojeri" = Aphanus murchisonae
"Pachymerus murchisoni" = Aphanus murchisonae Heer 1853 seed bug
"Pachymerus bojeri" = Aphanus murchisonae Heer 1853 seed bug | |
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Pyralites obscurus n. gen. n. sp.1
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Phryganea aquensis n. sp.3
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Stenus prodromus n. sp.1
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Hilarites bellus n. gen. n. sp.1
Hilarites bellus n. gen. n. sp.1 Heer 1856 dagger fly Z.U.S. collection (possibly Zurich University?)
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Penthetria nervisinuata5, Bibio curtisii1, "Protomyia elegans" = Plecia bucklandi1, "Protomyia gracilis" = Plecia bucklandi1, Plecia ? macilenta6
Penthetria nervisinuata5 Theobald 1937 march fly ETHZ 164 (Bibiopsis funerata Heer in Heer & Gaudin, 1861 - nomen nudum)
"Protomyia gracilis" = Plecia bucklandi1 Heer 1849 love bug Z.U.S. collection (possibly Zurich University?)
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