Also known as Vendean amber
Where: France (46.9° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 0.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• La Garnache consists of two lignitic clay series, Garnache 1 and Garnache 2, separated by a fault. The first series cropped out to the south of the fault during road works until 2002 but is now covered by an embankment. It has provided numerous pieces of amber containing arthropod and micro-organism inclusions. Palynological analysis of Garnache 1 revealed several Normapolles species belonging to the genera Atlantopollis, Complexiopollis, Osculapollis, Plicapollis and Trudopollis, but larger forms typical of Senonian deposits are absent. By contrast, Garnache 2 proved to be dominated taxonomically and numerically by spores (Appendicisporites, Camarozonosporites, Gleicheniidites, Patellasporites, Stereisporites), associated with a few gymnosperm (Cerebropollenites, Phyllocladidites, Classopollis) and angiosperm (Liliacidites, Retitricolpites and a single specimen of the Normapolles Complexiopollis) taxa. Garnache 1 is, therefore, younger than Garnache 2, the latter being clearly Cenomanian in age whereas Garnache 1 is more likely to be Turonian.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified amber
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber
Collection methods: Repository: Geological Institute and Museum of the University Rennes 1, Rennes, France
Primary reference: D. Penney. 2014. A fossil ray spider (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae) in Cretaceous amber from Vendée, France. Paleontological Contributions 10:5-8 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 164386: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.12.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Termitotron vendeense n. gen. n. sp.4
| |
Vendeenympha gravesi n. gen. n. sp.5
| |
Ankothrips dupeae n. sp.8
| |
| |
| |
| |
Scocompus atelisus n. gen. n. sp.1
| |
Serphites fannyae n. sp.6
| |
Menopsila dupeae n. gen. n. sp.2
| |
Garnaconis dupeorum n. gen. n. sp.10
| |
Hyperstenichnus vendeanus n. gen. n. sp.7
Hyperstenichnus vendeanus n. gen. n. sp.7 Jałoszyński and Perrichot 2017 antlike stone beetle IGR.GAR-10
| |
| |
Microphorites magaliae n. sp.9
| |
Arachnida | |
? Baalzebub mesozoicum n. sp.
| |
Nasutiacarus perplexus n. gen. n. sp.13
| |
Malacostraca | |
Eurotanais seilacheri n. sp.11
| |
Vacuotheca dupeorum n. gen. n. sp.12
|