Where: Germany (50.4° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 50.7° N, 7.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Oscar Böttger; reposited in the SMF
• Repository: Dicerca taschei was at Administration of the Salzhausen Lignite Mine. Böttger collection later donated to Senckenberg Museum (Breddin, 1901).
Primary reference: C. H. G. von Heyden. 1856. Reste von Insekten aus der Braunkohle von Salzhausen und Westerburg. Palaeontographica 4:198-201 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 152936: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Bibiopsis carbonum n. sp." = Penthetria carbonum3
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Pentatoma boettgeri3 von Heyden and von Heyden 1865 stink bug Breddin describes and illustrates a specimen, probably the same one
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"Nepticula fossilis n. sp." = Stigmellites fossilis2
"Nepticula fossilis n. sp." = Stigmellites fossilis2 von Heyden 1862 moth Found by Herr Plock and donated to SMF; another found by Bottger.
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Attagenus extinctus n. sp.3
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Anthaxia deleta n. sp.3, ? Anthaxia primaeva n. sp.3, Anthaxia carbonaria n. sp.3, Dicerca taschei n. sp., Sphenoptera knopi n. sp.3
Dicerca taschei n. sp. von Heyden 1856 jewel beetle Collected by Tasche and stored at Salzhausen Lignite Mine
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Oberea praemortua n. sp.2
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"Helops wetteravicus n. sp." = Anthracohelops wetteravicus3
"Helops wetteravicus n. sp." = Anthracohelops wetteravicus3 von Heyden and von Heyden 1865 darkling beetle | |
Lebia amissa n. sp.3
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