Armissan quarry, near Narbonne (MNHN collection): Late/Upper Oligocene, France
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Odonata
- Calopterygidae
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Sapho armissani n. sp.
Nel 1987
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MNHN B47290 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | France | State/province: | Aude |
| Coordinates: | 43.2° North, 3.1° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.9° North, 0.5° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
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
| Stratigraphy comments: The age of the deposit has been assigned by Schmidt-Kittler (1971) to the later Oligocene (Stampian). |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Environment: | pond | Tectonic setting: | piggyback basin |
| Geology comments: The specimen is from a freshwater (probably marshy) limestone deposit. The Narbonne Basin was formed within an irregular depression located on the Eastern Corbières thrust sheet. During late Oligocene and early Miocene (Aquitanian) times, this piggyback basin was filled with non-marine sediments including lacustrine and palustrine carbonates, evaporites (gypsum), alluvial fine-grained siliciclastics, and fanglomerates. | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | MNHN |
Metadata
| Database number: | 120819 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | J. Karr |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2011-11-22 04:33:14 | Last modified: | 2014-08-07 17:17:20 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-11-22 04:33:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 38580. | A. Nel. 1987. Un nouveau Calopterygidae fossile des laminites Oligocènes D'Armissan (Aude, France). Revue Française d'Entomologie (N.S.) 9(3):147-148 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham] |