Champclauson quarry, Bassin du Gard, Les Lavoirs bed (Carboniferous of France)

Where: France (44.2° N, 4.0° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° S, 16.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stephanian C (303.4 - 301.2 Ma)

• Upper Stephanian, Assise Avaize

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Late orogenic extensional basin with typical half-graben geometry developed in over-thickened Variscan crust, similar to Basin-and-Range.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by P. Bertrand

• Repository: MusĂ©e Geologique de Lille

Primary reference: D. Laurentiaux. 1950. Les insectes des bassins houillers du Gard et de la Loire. Annales de Paléontologie 46:65-84 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156701: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
Phyloblatta bertrandi n. sp. Laurentiaux 1950 winged insect