Where: France (45.1° N, 3.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.4° N, 2.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• Cinérites de Joursac, dated about 8.5 Ma
Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified, tuffaceous mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by P. Marty; reposited in the MNHN
• Repository: not stated; presumably now in MNHN
Primary reference: L. Piton and N. Théobald. 1935. La faune entomologique des gisements Mio-Pliocènes du Massif Central. Revue des Sciences Naturelles d'Auvergne (N. S.) 1:65-104 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138763: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Carabus foveolatus n. sp.
Carabus foveolatus n. sp. Piton 1935 ground beetle | |
Damarsilia martyi n. sp.
Damarsilia martyi n. sp. Piton 1935 jewel beetle | |
Camponotus obesus n. sp., Formica cantalica n. sp.
Camponotus obesus n. sp. Piton 1935 ant
Formica cantalica n. sp. Piton 1935 ant |