Armissan quarry, near Narbonne (Munich collection) (Oligocene of France)

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

• The specimen is from a freshwater (probably marshy) limestone deposit. The Narbonne Basin was formed within an irregular depression located on the Eastern Corbières thrust sheet. During late Oligocene and early Miocene (Aquitanian) times, this piggyback basin was filled with non-marine sediments including lacustrine and palustrine carbonates, evaporites (gypsum), alluvial fine-grained siliciclastics, and fanglomerates.

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

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Cicindelites armissanti n. gen. n. sp., Carabites rugosus n. sp.
Cicindelites armissanti n. gen. n. sp. Meunier 1898 ground beetle
no. 121
Carabites rugosus n. sp. Meunier 1898 ground beetle
no. 120
 Coleoptera -
Ateuchites grandis n. gen. n. sp.
Ateuchites grandis n. gen. n. sp. Meunier 1898 scarab beetle
no. 117
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Chrysomelidae indet.
Chrysomelidae indet. Latreille 1802 leaf beetle
no. 122
 Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Buprestidae indet., Buprestites viridis n. sp.
Buprestidae indet. Leach 1815 jewel beetle
no. 119
Buprestites viridis n. sp. Meunier 1898 jewel beetle
no. 118