Caylux (NHMB collection) (Oligocene of France)

Where: France (44.2° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 0.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithified phosphorite

• Aquitaine basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with phosphate

Collected by Rossignol

• Repository: Naturhistorischen Museums in Basel

Primary reference: E. Handschin. 1944. Insekten aus den Phosphoriten des Quercy. Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 64(4):1-23 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160861: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.08.2014, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Aphodius sp. Hellwig 1798 scarab beetle
 Diptera - Phoridae
Megaselia sp. Rondani 1856 scuttle fly
41 specimens from Bach and Caylux
Myriapoda
 Spirostreptida - Cambalidae
Protosilvestria sculpta Handschin 1944 millipede
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Protapirus priscus n. gen. n. sp.
Protapirus priscus n. gen. n. sp. Filhol 1874 tapir