PBDB Collection

Céreste (Lutz NHMM coll) (Oligocene of France)

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

• Apt basin. Irregular basins formed during extension of the European platform in the Oligocene resulting from the formation of the West-European rift system.

• "Calcaires"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Herbert Lutz

• Repository: Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz/Landessammlung für Naturkunde Rheinland-Pfalz (not certain of all of Lutz's material is at NHMM)

Primary reference: H. Lutz. 1985. Eine fossile Stielaugenfliege aus dem Unter-Oligozän von Ceresté, Frankreich (Diptera: Diopsidae). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 59:75-78 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123913: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.02.2012, edited by Jered Karr

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
Odonata - Sieblosiidae	Stenolestes "sp. 1"⁵, ? Stenolestes "sp. 2"⁵ Stenolestes "sp. 1"⁵ Scudder 1895 damselfly Coll Lutz Od 2 ? Stenolestes "sp. 2"⁵ Scudder 1895 damselfly Coll Lutz Od 4
Odonata - Lestidae	Lestes ceresti⁵, Lestes lutzi n. sp.⁵ Lestes ceresti⁵ Nel and Papazian 1985 spread-winged damselfly Coll Lutz Od 7; unnumbered Lestes lutzi n. sp.⁵ Nel and Paicheler 1994 spread-winged damselfly
Odonata - Libellulidae	? Tauriphila cerestensis n. sp.⁴ ? Tauriphila cerestensis n. sp.⁴ Nel and Paicheler 1993 common skimmer NHMM PE 2014/4 (old Lutz Od6)
Hemiptera - Tingidae	Derephysia tyche n. sp.⁶ Derephysia tyche n. sp.⁶ Wappler 2004 lace bug NHMM PE 2003/1a+b LS
Hemiptera - Aphididae	Tetraneurites provincialis¹, Tetraneurites ? provincialis¹, Fossilicallis antiquus n. gen. n. sp.¹, Nigrosiphum scholzae n. gen. n. sp.¹ Tetraneurites provincialis¹ Théobald 1937 aphid NHMM PE 1999/2-LS, 3-LS, 4-LS, 5-LS, 7-LS, 8-LS, 12-LS, 16-LS Tetraneurites ? provincialis¹ Théobald 1937 aphid NHMM PE 1999/6-LS, 13-LS, 15-LS Fossilicallis antiquus n. gen. n. sp.¹ Heie 2002 aphid NHMM PE 1999/9-LS Nigrosiphum scholzae n. gen. n. sp.¹ Heie 2002 aphid NHMM PE 1999/1-LS, 10-LS, 11-LS (Aphidina in pl 3, fig 9 of Lutz 1984)
Diptera - Culicidae	Culicinae indet.³ Culicinae indet.³ Meigen 1818 mosquito 32 pupae, 1000 larval exuviae
Diptera - Diopsidae	Prosphyracephala succini² Prosphyracephala succini² Loew 1873 stalk-eyed fly DII d28/29

¹Heie and Lutz 2002; ²Kotrba 2009; ³Lutz 1985; ⁴Nel and Paicheler 1993; ⁵Nel and Paicheler 1994; ⁶Wappler 2004