Céreste (Descimon coll) (Oligocene of France)

Also known as Cereste

Where: France (43.9° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 2.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Campagne-Calavon Formation, MP 23 (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• ~33.9 Ma to ~28.1 Ma, Oligocene, Rupelian (level MP 23, Reichenbacher & Philippe 1997).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; carbonate

• Apt basin. Irregular basins formed during extension of the European platform in the Oligocene resulting from the formation of the West-European rift system.
• "Calcaires"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Private collection of H. Descimon (Marseille)

Primary reference: A. Nel and M. Papazian. 1985. Description d’une nouvelle espèce fossile de Lestes Leach, 1815, du Stampien de Céreste (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) (Odon. Lestidae). Entomologica Gallica 1:275-279 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157228: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.06.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Odonata - Lestidae
Lestes ceresti
Lestes ceresti Nel and Papazian 1985 spread-winged damselfly