The Avion locality is a carboniferouslagerstätte in France. This lagerstätte is located in a coal slag-heap outside the town of Avion in the region of Pas-de-Calais. Unfortunately, as this slag heap is closed and no new fossils are able to be obtained outside of the paleobiota previously identified. In addition, the coal where the scraps are obtained has not been assigned to any formation.[1]
Earliest known titanopteran, may have communicated via wing-produced light flashes or crepitation (crackling sounds produced from wingbeats in some orthopterans)[17]
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^Prokop, Jakub; Tippeltová, Zuzana; Roques, Patrick; Nel, André (2013). "A new genus and species of Breyeriidae and wings of immature stages from the Upper Carboniferous, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (Insecta: Palaeodictyoptera)". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 44 (2): 117–128. doi:10.1163/1876312X-44032098.
^ abcdefgProkop, Jakub; Roques, Patrick; Nel, André (3 April 2014). "New non-holometabolous insects from the Pennsylvanian of the Avion locality in Pas-de-Calais, France (Insecta: 'Exopterygota')". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 38 (2): 155–169. doi:10.1080/03115518.2014.848620.
^Coty, David; HáVa, Jiří; Prokop, Jakub; Roques, Patrick (29 October 2014). "New archaeorthopteran insects from the Late Carboniferous of the Nord and Pas-de-Calais basins in northern France (Insecta: Cnemidolestodea, Panorthoptera)". Zootaxa. 3878 (5). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3878.5.4.
^Quispe, Laura; Roques, Patrick; Garrouste, Romain; Nel, André (4 March 2022). "Carboniferous Blattinopsidae: revision of Klebsiella and new genus and species from Avion (Insecta, Paoliida)". Historical Biology. 34 (3): 383–389. doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.1916817.
^Schubnel, Thomas; Roques, Patrick; Oudard, Jacques; Garrouste, Romain; Nel, André (26 February 2020). "A new paleopteran genus and species from the late Carboniferous of Avion France, (Insecta: Palaeodictyopterida: ?Diaphanopterodea)". Palaeoentomology. 3 (1): 032–035. doi:10.11646/PALAEOENTOMOLOGY.3.1.3.
^ abSchubnel, Thomas; Perdu, Lubin; Roques, Patrick; Garrouste, Romain; Nel, André (3 July 2019). "Two new stem-stoneflies discovered in the Pennsylvanian Avion locality, Pas-de-Calais, France (Insecta: 'Exopterygota')". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 43 (3): 430–435. doi:10.1080/03115518.2019.1569159.
^Nel, André; Roques, Patrick (2 September 2022). "A new strange Archaeorthoptera from the Moscovian of Avion (France) (Insecta, Polyneoptera)". Historical Biology. 34 (9): 1769–1771. doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.1978082.
^ abcNel, André; Roques, Patrick; Nel, Patricia; Prokin, Alexander A.; Bourgoin, Thierry; Prokop, Jakub; Szwedo, Jacek; Azar, Dany; Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure; Wappler, Torsten; Garrouste, Romain; Coty, David; Huang, Diying; Engel, Michael S.; Kirejtshuk, Alexander G. (14 November 2013). "The earliest known holometabolous insects". Nature. 503 (7475): 257–261. doi:10.1038/nature12629.
^Nel, André; Garrouste, Romain; Roques, Patrick (21 December 2020). "The first representative of the archaeorthopteran family Eoblattidae in the Konservat Lagerstätte of Avion, France (Insecta: Polyneoptera)". Palaeoentomology. 3 (6): 552–555. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.3.6.3.
^Schubnel, Thomas; Roberts, Dawn; Roques, Patrick; Garrouste, Romain; Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure; Nel, André (18 March 2020). "Moscovian fossils shed light on the enigmatic polyneopteran families Cacurgidae and Eoblattidae (Insecta: 'Eoblattida', Archaeorthoptera)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18 (6): 499–511. doi:10.1080/14772019.2019.1627595.
^Nel, André; Roques, Patrick; Prokop, Jakub; Garrouste, Romain (3 April 2019). "A new, extraordinary 'damselfly-like' Odonatoptera from the Pennsylvanian of the Avion locality in Pas-de-Calais, France (Insecta: 'Exopterygota')". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 43 (2): 241–245. doi:10.1080/03115518.2018.1489561.
^Roques, Patrick; Garrouste, Romain; Nel, Andre (2008). "A new griffenfly genus from the Late Carboniferous of northern France (Odonatoptera: Meganeuridae)". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 39 (2): 231–239. doi:10.1163/187631208794760894.
^Nel, André; Roques, Patrick (31 August 2021). "The second species of the cnemidolestid genus Piesbergopterum from the Upper Carboniferous of Avion, Northern France (Archaeorthoptera: Cnemidolestidae)". Palaeoentomology. 4 (4): 323–325. doi:10.11646/PALAEOENTOMOLOGY.4.4.6.
^Nel, André; Roques, Patrick; Nel, Patricia; Prokop, Jakub; Steyer, J. Sébastien (January 2007). "The earliest holometabolous insect from the Carboniferous: a "crucial" innovation with delayed success (Insecta Protomeropina Protomeropidae)". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. New Series. 43 (3): 349–355. doi:10.1080/00379271.2007.10697531.
^Nel, Patricia; Azar, Dany; Prokop, Jakub; Roques, Patrick; Hodebert, Gilbert; Nel, André (June 2012). "From Carboniferous to Recent: wing venation enlightens evolution of thysanopteran lineage". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 10 (2): 385–399. doi:10.1080/14772019.2011.598578.