Célas (MNHN collection) (Eocene of France)
Where: France (44.1° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 0.5° E)
When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• Age given as Sannoisien
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; marl
• Half-graben formed along a simple listric fault (Ales fault) responsible for the development of a hangingwall roll-over, and north-west divergence of syn-rift infill.
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the MNHN
Primary reference: J. Skartveit and A. Nel. 2017. Revision of fossil Bibionidae (Insecta: Diptera) from French Oligocene deposits. Zootaxa 4225:1-83 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184102: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.01.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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