Les Figons, route d'Eguille: Late/Upper Oligocene, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Hemiptera - Belostomatidae
Belostomatidae indet. Leach 1815
Nel and Paicheler 1992 1 specimen
MNHN IPM-R.07894
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Diprionidae
Paleomonoctenus patriciae n. gen., n. sp. Nel 2004
Nel 2004 1 specimen
MNHN-LP-R 11192 (8 measurements)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae
Calosoma agassizi (Barthelemy-Lapommeraye 1846)
Nel 1989 4 specimens
original and current combination Carabus agassizi
Nel 1609, 35, 975; 950 (Eguilles) (1 measurement)
Insecta - Odonata - Libellulidae
Jeanlegrandia oligocenica n. gen., n. sp. Nel et al. 2005
Nel et al. 2005 1 specimen
MNHN-LP-R 63849 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Odonata - Gomphaeschnidae
Jagoria oligocenica n. sp. Nel and Papazian 1983
1 specimen
recombined as Oligoaeschna oligocenica
MNHN.F.A57282 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Odonata - Aeshnidae
Epiaeschna pseudoheros n. sp. Nel and Petrulevičius 2010
Nel and Petrulevičius 2010 1 specimen
MNHN-LP-R 63848 coll Nel (1 measurement)
Insecta - Odonata - Calopterygidae
Sapho legrandi n. sp. Nel and Petrulevičius 2010
Nel and Petrulevičius 2010 1 specimen
MNHN-LP-R 63847 coll Nel (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Aix-en-Provence
Coordinates: 43.6° North, 5.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.4° North, 2.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oligocene
Age range of interval:27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:insect level Local bed:insect level
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified not reported
Environment:lacustrine - large Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: This lacustrine formation was deposited in a very large but shallow-water lake, with variable salinity and near the marine coast (Nury 1990, Nury & Thomassin 1994). Irregular basins formed during extension of the European platform in the Oligocene resulting from the formation of the West-European rift system.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Metadata
Database number:114117
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr, M. Clapham, L. Edwards
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2011-08-10 07:53:32 Last modified:2016-10-01 11:44:43
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-10 07:53:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
60449. A. Nel and M. Papazian. 1983. Description d'un nouvelle espèce d'Odonate fossile du Stampien d'Aix-en-Provence (Odonata Aeschnidae). L'Entomologiste 39:119-122 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

50997 A. Nel. 1989. Les calosomes fossiles de l'Oligocène du sud-est de la France (Col. Carabidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 93:257-268 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38896 A. Nel. 2004. New and poorly known Cenozoic sawflies of France (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinoidea, Pamphilioidea). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 2:253-269 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]
55969 A. Nel and J. C. Paicheler. 1992. Les Heteroptera aquatiques fossiles, état actuel des connaissances (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha et Gerromorpha). Entomologica Gallica 3:159-182 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
41734 A. Nel, J. F. Petrulevičius, and E. A. Jarzembowski. 2005. New fossil Odonata from the European Cenozoic (Insecta: Odonata: Thaumatoneuridae, Aeshnidae, Idionychidae, Libellulidae). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 235(3):343-380 [M. Clapham/L. Edwards/M. Clapham]
37031 A. Nel and J. F. Petrulevičius. 2010. Afrotropical and Nearctic genera of Odonata in the French Oligocene: biogeographic and paleoclimatic implications (Insecta: Calopterygidae, Aeshnidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 46(1-2):228-236 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]