Eckfeld Maar (NHMN 1992 collection) (Eocene of Germany)

Where: Eifel, Germany (50.1° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 2.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 13 zone, Eifel Formation, MP 13 (48.6 - 40.4 Ma)

• The Eifel is the German part of the outcropping Variscan Basement west of the river Rhine and nort of the river Mosel.

•"MP 13... recently dated at 44.3 +/- 0.4 million years BP (Mertz et al. 2000)" (Franzen 2004)

•Insects come mostly from teo horizons near marker horizon HT & KaLH

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crater lake; siltstone and shale

• "a small freshwater [crater] lake a few hundred meters in diameter" (Franzen 2004)
• ...laminitic "oilshales" and siltstones... with frequent turbiditic intercalations... plant macrofossils are ... distributed throughout the sequence under investigation. ... coarse and robust plant debris such as wood fragments and large fruits/seeds is concentrated in the turbiditic layers. (Wilde and Frankenhauser 1998).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Collected in 1992

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• Repository: Nautrhistorisches Museum Mainz

Primary reference: T. Wappler. 2003. Systematik, Phylogenie, Taphonomie und Paläoökologie der Insekten aus dem Mittel-Eozän des Eckfelder Maares, Vulkaneifel. Clausthaler Geowissenschaften 2:1-241 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135643: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 30.10.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Dicondylia -
Plecoptera indet. Burmeister 1839 stonefly
NHMM PE1992/280 LS
 Blattodea - Blattidae
Blattidae indet. Latreille 1810 cockroach
PE1992/523, PE1992/348
 Blattodea - Blaberidae
Blaberidae indet. Saussure 1864 giant cockroach
NHMM PE1992/312 LS
 Blattodea - Blattellidae
Blattellidae "indet. 1" Karny 1908 cockroach
PE1992/327
 Hemiptera -
Cercopoidea "indet. 2" Leach 1815 froghopper
PE1992/525, PE1992/585
 Hemiptera - Gerridae
Lutetiabates eckfeldensis Wappler and Andersen 2004 water strider
PE1992/454, 472, 589
 Hemiptera - Lygaeidae
Lygaeidae "indet. 3" Schilling 1829 milkweed bug
PE1992/336 LS
 Hemiptera - Pentatomidae
Pentatomidae "indet. 3" Leach 1815 stink bug
PE1992/323, 503
 Hemiptera - Cydnidae
Cydnidae "indet. 3" Billberg 1820 burrowing bug
PE1992/273
 Hemiptera - Aradidae
? Neuroctenus incompletus n. sp.4 Wappler and Heiss 2006 flat bug
PE 1992/270
? Mezira sp.4 Amyot and Audinet-Serville 1843 flat bug
PE1992/272
 Hymenoptera - Apidae
"Eckfeldapis electrapoides n. gen. n. sp." = Electrapis (Eckfeldapis) electrapoides2, "Protobombus pristinus" = Protobombus (Thnetobombus) pristinus
"Eckfeldapis electrapoides n. gen. n. sp." = Electrapis (Eckfeldapis) electrapoides2 Lutz 1993 bee
NHMM PE1992/614 LS
"Protobombus pristinus" = Protobombus (Thnetobombus) pristinus Wappler and Engel 2003 bee
PE1992/260A,B ls
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Carabidae "indet. 2" Latreille 1802 ground beetle
PE 1992/558, 559
 Coleoptera - Cupedidae
"? Tenomerga eckfeldense n. sp." = Cupes eckfeldensis3
"? Tenomerga eckfeldense n. sp." = Cupes eckfeldensis3 Tröster 1993 reticulated beetle
PE 1992/461 a+b
 Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
Tenebrionidae indet. Latreille 1802 darkling beetle
PE1992/317
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Lamprosomatinae indet. Lacordaire 1848 leaf beetle
PE1992/194
 Coleoptera - Cerambycidae
Cerambycidae "indet. 1" Latreille 1802 longhorned beetle
PE1992/189
Cerambycidae "indet. 2" Latreille 1802 longhorned beetle
PE1992/314, 512
Cerambycidae "indet. 3" Latreille 1802 longhorned beetle
PE1992/292
 Coleoptera - Brentidae
Apioninae "indet. 3" Schoenherr 1823 weevil
? Trachelizini "indet. 1" Lacordaire 1865 weevil
PE1992/118 (PE1992/331 is holotype of Eckfelderolispa petrefacta)
Eckfelderolispa petrefacta n. gen. n. sp.1 Legalov and Wappler 2019 weevil
PE1992/331
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Curculionini indet. Latreille 1802 snout beetle
PE1992/324, 319, 108
 Coleoptera - Cleridae
Cleridae indet. Latreille 1802 checkered beetle
PE1992/343
 Coleoptera - Elateridae
Macropunctum eckfeldi Tröster 1992 click beetle
PE1992/192
Lanelater nicoleae Wappler 2003 click beetle
PE1992/79
 Coleoptera - Throscidae
Throscidae indet. Laporte 1840 beetle
PE1992/157
 Coleoptera - Buprestidae
"Coroebini "indet. 3"" = Coraebini, Buprestinae "indet. 2", Buprestis sp.
"Coroebini "indet. 3"" = Coraebini Bedel 1921 jewel beetle
PE1992/502
Buprestinae "indet. 2" Leach 1815 jewel beetle
PE1992/334
Buprestis sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel beetle
PE1992/363
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Pselaphinae indet. Latreille 1802 rove beetle
PE 1992/330, 582
 Coleoptera - Geotrupidae
Geotrupidae indet. Latreille 1802 earth-boring dung beetle
PE1992/411 a+b
 Coleoptera - Lucanidae
Lucanidae indet. Latreille 1804 stag beetle
PE1992/362
 Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Rutelinae indet. MacLeay 1819 scarab beetle
PE1992/491 a+b