Chateau de Ferrals, Villespy (Eocene of France)

Where: France (43.3° N, 2.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 1.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calcaires de Ventenac Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Located above lower Lutetian marine limestones and below the continental molasse of the upper Lutetian Molasses de Carcassone et Gres d'Issel.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: H. Bertrand and D. Laurentiaux. 1963. Une larve "Pséphénoïde" du genre Eubrianax Kiesenw. (Coléoptères Eubrianacidae) dans l'Éocène lacustre de l'Aude. Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 98:232-241 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193785: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Psephenidae
Eubrianax vandeli n. sp. Bertrand and Laurentiaux 1963 water penny beetle