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
Collected by Oswald Heer
• Acquired by M. de Saporta in a gypsum quarry in the vicinity of Aix.
Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1875. Fossil butterflies. Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1:1-99 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123944: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Cydnopsis heerii n. sp." = Cydnus heeri3
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Thaites ruminiana n. gen. n. sp.
Thaites ruminiana n. gen. n. sp. Scudder 1875 swallowtail butterfly | |
"Triphyllus heerii n. sp." = Triphyllus heeri2
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Cleonus inflexus2, "Cleonus asperulus" = Protainophthalmus asperulus2, "Brachyderes longipes" = Protainophthalmus asperulus2, Hipporhinus heerii2, "Phytonomus annosus n. sp." = Rhytidoderes sexsulcatus2, Plinthus heerii n. sp.2
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Coeliodes primigenius n. sp.2
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