Where: Castellon, Spain (40.0° N, 0.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 1.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, carbonaceous shale
• Eastern Iberian rift system. From the late Oligocene and during the Neogene both strike-slip and extensional regimes alternated and coexisted, giving rise to a number of fault-bounded basins. Deep lacustrine sequences ranging from 100 up to 250 m thick were deposited in all the above mentioned basins. The organic-rich sequences are characterized by thin lamination, absence of bioturbation, rare benthonic fauna (if present, it is supplied from other parts of the basin) and excellent preservation of "exotic" fossils (plant leaves, insects, amphibians). The suitable depth conditions needed for permanent stratification in the water bodies and anoxia in the deeper parts of the lakes, were due essentially to increasing subsidence outstripping deposition.
• Laminated oil shales
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: Repositories: private collection of Manuel Saura Vilar (MSV)
Primary reference: E. Peñalver, A. Nel, and X. Martínez-Delclòs. 1996. Insectos del Mioceno inferior de Ribesalbes (Castellón, España). Paleoptera y Neoptera poli- y paraneoptera. Treballs del Museu de Geologia de Barcelona 5:15-95 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140796: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Insecta |
| Odonata - |
Zygoptera indet. Selys-Longchamps 1854 damselfly
MSV 11, 12, 26, 36, 63, 122, 163
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| Odonata - Lestidae |
Lestes sp. Leach 1815 spread-winged damselfly
MSV 133
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| Odonata - |
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| Odonata - Libellulidae |
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| Thysanoptera - Thripidae |
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| Hemiptera - Aphididae |
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| Hemiptera - Nepidae |
Nepa sp. Linnaeus 1758 true bug
MSV 41, 80
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| Hemiptera - Notonectidae |
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| Hemiptera - Berytidae |
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| Hemiptera - Miridae |
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| Hemiptera - Aphrophoridae |
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| Hymenoptera - Sphecidae |
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| Hymenoptera - Formicidae |
Formicidae indet. Latreille 1802 ant
MSV 16 (counterpart JAG 22), 17, 34, 45, 83, 97, 101, 107, 110, 116, 147, 193, 194, 195
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| Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae |
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| Hymenoptera - Braconidae |
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| Blattodea - |
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| Orthoptera - Acrididae |
Oedipodinae indet. Walker 1871 band-winged grasshopper
MSV 9, 60 (counterpart JAG 34), 72, 73, 89, 95, 99, 113, 115, 119, 125, 154
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