Where: Aude, France (43.2° N, 3.1° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 0.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• The age of the deposit has been assigned by Schmidt-Kittler (1971) to the later Oligocene (Stampian).
Environment/lithology: pond; limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the BSP
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Repository: collection of Munich (BSPG), sent to Menuer by Karel von Zittel.
Primary reference: F. Meunier. 1898. Description de quelques coléoptères de l'Oligocène d'Armissan (Aude). Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 22:113-115 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 152184: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.11.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Carabites rugosus n. sp., Cicindelites armissanti n. gen. n. sp.
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Ateuchites grandis n. gen. n. sp.
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