Bach, Quercy (NHMB collection) (Oligocene of France)

Where: France (44.4° N, 1.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° N, 0.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• Cloup d’Aural is Chattian (MP28), but Mas de Got/Bories and Valbro are both Rupelian (MP22).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithified phosphorite

• Aquitaine basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with phosphate

Collected by Rossignol

• Repository: Naturhistorischen Museums in Basel

Primary reference: E. Handschin. 1944. Insekten aus den Phosphoriten des Quercy. Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 64(4):1-23 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160862: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.08.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Diptera - Phoridae
Spiniphora sp., Megaselia sp., Eophora sp.
Spiniphora sp. Malloch 1909 scuttle fly
Megaselia sp. Rondani 1856 scuttle fly
41 specimens from Bach and Caylux
Eophora sp. Handschin 1944 scuttle fly
"hundreds"
 Blattodea - Blattidae
"Blatta" sp.
"Blatta" sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockroach
 Coleoptera - Cerambycidae
Dorcadion bachense n. sp.
Dorcadion bachense n. sp. Handschin 1944 longhorned beetle
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Thanatophilus sp., "Silphidae indet." = Staphylinidae, Ptomascopus aveyronensis
Thanatophilus sp. Leach 1815 rove beetle
"Silphidae indet." = Staphylinidae Latreille 1802 carrion beetle
Ptomascopus aveyronensis Flach 1890 rove beetle
 Lepidoptera - Tineidae
Tineidae indet.
Tineidae indet. Latreille 1810 moth
 Hymenoptera - Braconidae
Braconidae indet.
Braconidae indet. Nees ab Esenbeck 1811 wasp
 Hymenoptera -
Xenomorphia resurrecta n. gen. n. sp., Xenomorphia handschini n. sp., Coptera anka, Palaeortona quercyensis n. gen. n. sp.
Xenomorphia resurrecta n. gen. n. sp. Krogmann et al. 2018 wasp
NMB F2875, F2615, F2822, F2840, F2856, F2972, F2982, F3018, F3103, F3220, F3389, F3394, F3477, F3612 (females); F2557, F2674, F2732, F2752, F2831, F2851, F2854, F2945, F2985, F3140, F3146, F3254, F3278, F3516, F3562, F3610 (males)
Xenomorphia handschini n. sp. Krogmann et al. 2018 wasp
NMB F3042 (female), F2543, F3192, F3571 (males)
Coptera anka Krogmann et al. 2018 wasp
NMB F2848, F2954 (females), F3154 (male)
Palaeortona quercyensis n. gen. n. sp. Krogmann et al. 2018 wasp
NMB F2770
Myriapoda
 Spirostreptida - Cambalidae
Protosilvestria sculpta
Protosilvestria sculpta Handschin 1944 millipede