Larnagol, Quercy (NHMB collection) (Eocene of France)

Where: France (44.5° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 1.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Mémerlin main filling dated to MP17a or MP18, or early Priabonian. Prajoux (and Cuzal) filling dated to MP13 or MP14, or Lutetian. Nearly all classic vertebrate fossils come from Mémerlin (only one from Prajoux; Astruc et al., 2000), so it seems plausible that this location was the main site of 19th century collecting. An older, middle Eocene age cannot be ruled out.

• 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 160865: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Histeridae
Onthophilus intermedius n. sp. Handschin 1944 clown beetle
NHMB F1951, F1992, F1993, F1994, F1995, F1996, F1997, F1998