Montagne d'Andance, Saint-Bauzile, Privas (Civet collection) (Miocene of France)

Where: Ardèche, France (44.7° N, 4.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 4.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified diatomite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by C. Civet

• Repository: not stated

Primary reference: C. Civet. 1976. Arthropodes fossiles de la Montagne d'Andance, Massif du Coiron - Ardèche. Revue Périodique de "La Physiophile" 84:36-45 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172761: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.08.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Zygentoma - Lepismatidae
Lepisma aurea Dufour 1831 silverfish
Possibly mayfly larvae?
 Orthoptera - Tettigoniidae
Tettigonia viridissima Linnaeus 1758 katydid
 Blattodea - Kalotermitidae
"? Calotermes sp." = Kalotermes
"? Calotermes sp." = Kalotermes Hagen 1853 termite
 Hemiptera - Fulgoridae
Pterodictya ephemera Fabricius 1794 fulgorid planthopper
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Formica sp. Linnaeus 1758 ant
Formica maculipennis Théobald 1935 ant
Formica auxillacensis Piton 1935 ant
Lasius chambonensis Théobald 1935 ant
Lasius crispus Théobald 1935 ant
Solenopsis sp. Westwood 1840 ant
Pheidole pallidula Nylander 1849 ant
 Odonata - Lestidae
Lestes arvernus Piton 1935 spread-winged damselfly
 Diptera - Tipulidae
Tipula maclurei Scudder 1894 crane fly
var. chervini
 Diptera - Bibionidae
Bibio joursacensis, "Plecia (Protomyia) vergnei" = Plecia vergnei
Bibio joursacensis Théobald 1935 march fly
"Plecia (Protomyia) vergnei" = Plecia vergnei Piton 1935 love bug
Arachnida
 Araneae -
Araneae indet. Clerck 1757 spider