Dome du Barrot near Valberg (Permian of France)

Where: France (44.0° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.4° N, 22.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cians Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• Upper Cian. Roadian age suggested by paleomagnetism (Haldan et al., 2009).

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lithified, red mudstone

• Likely a Variscan collapse extensional basin
• "The harvest site of Arctotypus is in red mudstone, slope southwest of the Collet du Brec 890-900 m very near the base of the formation sandstone and conglomerate facies called Léouvé (upper Permian Barrot)." Laurentiaux-Vieira & Laurentiaux, 1963

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J. Vernet

Primary reference: F. Laurentiaux-Vieira and D. Laurentiaux. 1963. Découverte d'un Insecte Protodonate dans le Permien des Alpes-Maritimes. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences 257:3018-3020 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128570: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 12.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Meganisoptera - Meganeuridae
"Arctotypus verneti n. sp." = Curvitupus verneti
"Arctotypus verneti n. sp." = Curvitupus verneti Laurentiaux-Vieira and Laurentiaux 1963 griffinfly