Where: Bouches-Du-Rhone, France (43.5° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 2.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• "The ‘insect formation’ is 2.5 m thick, divided in two parts that correspond to two very different environmental conditions. The first (lower) episode is remarkable by its lateral mo- notony of facies on a distance of 6 km at least, in the outcrops observed on the northwest of Aix-en-Provence. This lower episode is distinguished from the rest of the ‘insect formation’ and from the whole formation of Aix-en-Provence by the presence of a very numerous thin limestone laminae. The second (upper) episode is remarkable by the presence of many silici- fied laminae. The fauna in this level is also very well preserved"….This collection consists of unspecified layers
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression
Collection methods: Repository: Institute Geologique de Montpellier, sent by M. Thoral
Primary reference: N. Théobald. 1937. Notes complémentaire sur les insectes fossiles oligocènes des gypses d'Aix-en-Provence. Bulletin Mensuel de la Société des Sciences de Nancy (N. S. 5) 6:157-178 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138838: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Erebomyrma thorali n. sp." = Carebara thorali
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"Cossonus marionii" = Cossonus marioni, Hipporhinus heeri, "Hylobius morosus" = Curculionites morosus
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Aquisextana irenaei n. gen. n. sp.
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"Tetraneura provincialis n. sp." = Tetraneurites provincialis
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Lygaeus obscurellus n. sp.
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"Plecia livida" = Plecia livida, "Plecia brevipennis" = Plecia livida, "Plecia constricta" = Plecia livida, "Plecia bucklandi" = Plecia bucklandi, "Plecia elegans" = Plecia bucklandi, "Plecia dilatativentris" = Plecia bucklandi, "Plecia gracilis" = Plecia bucklandi, "Bibio painvini" = Plecia painvini, "Bibio detractus" = Plecia lygaeoides, "Plecia guinieri" = Plecia lygaeoides, "Plecia splendida" = Plecia foersteri, "Bibio morio" = Plecia morio, "Plecia morio" = Plecia morio, Bibio sp., "Bibio conformans" = Bibio celasensis, "Bibio cf. romani" = Bibio curtisii, "Bibio serresi" = Bibio curtisii, Bibio curtisi, Bibio spectabilis, Bibio disjectus, Bibio fusiformis, "Plecia cf. lugens" = Penthetria lugens, "Plecia nervisinuata" = Penthetria nervisinuata
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Praecytherea sardii n. gen. n. sp.
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Rhagio primaevus n. sp.
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