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
Primary reference: E. F. Germar. 1837. Insectorum protogaeae specimen sistens insecta carbonum fossilium. Fauna Insectorum Europae 19 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 113682: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 04.08.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham and Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Angiospermae | |
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Dicotyledoneae | |
Angiospermae | |
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Pinopsida | |
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Amphibia | |
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Actinopteri | |
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Palaeotinca sp.1, "Protothymallus sp." = Protothymallus1, "Varhostichthys sp." = Protothymallus1, Tarsichthys sp.1, Tarsichthys macrurus1
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Notogoneus sp.1 Cope 1885
Notogoneus squamosseus1 de Blainville 1818 | |
Pharisatichthys aquensis1 Gaudant and Carnevale 2015 | |
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Mugil princeps1 Agassiz 1843 | |
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Malacostraca | |
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Insecta | |
Hipporhinus heerii n. sp.2, Brachycerus exilis n. sp., "Sitona margarum n. sp." = Protainophthalmus margarus2
Brachycerus exilis n. sp. Germar 1837 snout beetle | |
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