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 | |
Eubrianax vandeli n. sp.
Eubrianax vandeli n. sp. Bertrand and Laurentiaux 1963 water penny beetle |