Chauffontaine near Lunéville (Triassic of France)

Where: Grand Est, France (48.6° N, 6.5° E: paleocoordinates 14.0° N, 16.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Muschelkalk Group, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• Upper Muschelkalk, belonging to the upper Middle Triassic, close to the base of the Upper Triassic

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Lebrun

Primary reference: P. Fliche. 1901. Sur un insecte fossile trouvé dans le Trias en Lorraine. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 132:650-651 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130414: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 09.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera -
"Glaphyroptera lotharingiaca n. sp." = Flichea lotharingiaca
"Glaphyroptera lotharingiaca n. sp." = Flichea lotharingiaca Fliche 1901 beetle