Where: Languedoc, France (43.7° N, 3.2° E: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 20.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Merifrons Member (Salagou Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Near 800 marker bed. Upper part of Salagou Formation (Merifrons Member) is primarily Kungurian age, according to Michel et al. (2015), constrained by Artinskian radiometric ages in the underlying Octon Mb.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; lithified, brown, red claystone and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J. Lapeyrie

• Repository: Musée Fleury, Lodève

Primary reference: O. Béthoux, A. Nel, J. Lapeyrie and G. Gand. 2003. The Permostridulidae fam. n. (Panorthoptera), a new enigmatic insect family from the Upper Permian of France. European Journal of Entomology 100:581-585 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122920: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 07.01.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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