Coll de Saig (Bellver de Cerdanya, MNHN collection) (Miocene to of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.4° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vallesian to Vallesian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, diatomaceous claystone

• The Cerdanya basin was formed during dextral slip along the NE–SW La Tet fault (eastern Pyrenees) which formed a horsetail structure at its SW end.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Andre Nel; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: A. Nel and J. C. Paicheler. 1994. Les Lestoidea (Odonata, Zygoptera) fossiles: Un inventaire critique. Annales de Paléontologie 80(1):1-59 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113995: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 08.08.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Odonata - Aeshnidae
Aeshna cerdanica n. sp.3
Aeshna cerdanica n. sp.3 Nel and Martínez-Delclòs 1994 hawker dragonfly
MNHN-LP-R.10402 coll Nel
 Hymenoptera - Apidae
Apis "sp. F"2
Apis "sp. F"2 Linnaeus 1758 honey bee
MNHN-LP-R.08386, 10422, 10423, 10424, 10425
 Raphidioptera - Inocelliidae
"Miofibla cerdanica n. gen. n. sp." = Fibla (Reisserella) cerdanica1
"Miofibla cerdanica n. gen. n. sp." = Fibla (Reisserella) cerdanica1 Nel 1993 snakefly
MNHN-LP-R.10418
1Nel 1993; 2Nel et al. 1999; 3Nel et al. 1994