Where: Cantal, France (45.2° N, 2.7° E: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 2.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• "Lower Pleistocene, Reuverian, lower Pretiglian or Villafranchian." [Reuverian is late Pliocene, Piacenzian, in age, but the Pretiglian is early Pleistocene, Gelasian.]

Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified, diatomaceous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: A. Nel and J. C. Paicheler. 1993. Les Isoptera fossiles. État actuel des connaissances, implications paléoécologiques et paléoclimatologiques (Insecta, Dictyoptera). Cahiers de Paléontologie 1993:102-179 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157197: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.06.2014

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