Eckfeld Maar (NHMN 1992 collection): MP 13, Germany
collected 1992
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Hemiptera
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Cercopoidea informal indet. 2
Leach 1815
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| PE1992/525, PE1992/585 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Hemiptera
- Gerridae
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Lutetiabates eckfeldensis
Wappler and Andersen 2004
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| PE1992/454, 472, 589 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Hemiptera
- Aradidae
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Aradidae indet.
(Brullé 1836)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1992/272 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
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= ? Mezira sp.
Amyot and Audinet-Serville 1843
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Wappler and Heiss 2006 | |||||||||
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? Neuroctenus incompletus n. sp.
Wappler and Heiss 2006
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Wappler and Heiss 2006 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| PE 1992/270 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Hemiptera
- Pentatomidae
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Pentatomidae informal indet. 3
Leach 1815
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| PE1992/323, 503 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Hemiptera
- Cydnidae
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Cydnidae informal indet. 3
(Billberg 1820)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1992/273 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Hemiptera
- Lygaeidae
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Lygaeidae informal indet. 3
Schilling 1829
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1992/336 LS | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Plecoptera
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Plecoptera indet.
Burmeister 1839
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| NHMM PE1992/280 LS | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Blattodea
- Blattellidae
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Blattellidae informal indet. 1
Karny 1908
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1992/327 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Blattodea
- Blaberidae
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Blaberidae indet.
(Saussure 1864)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| NHMM PE1992/312 LS | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Blattodea
- Blattidae
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Blattidae indet.
Latreille 1810
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1992/523, PE1992/348 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Hymenoptera
- Apidae
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Eckfeldapis electrapoides n. gen., n. sp.
Lutz 1993
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Lutz 1993 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| recombined as Electrapis (Eckfeldapis) electrapoides | ||||||||||
| NHMM PE1992/614 LS (2 measurements) | ||||||||||
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Protobombus pristinus
Wappler and Engel 2003
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| recombined as Protobombus (Thnetobombus) pristinus | ||||||||||
| PE1992/260A,B ls | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Tenebrionidae
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Tenebrionidae indet.
(Latreille 1802)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| original and current combination Tenebrionites | ||||||||||
| PE1992/317 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Curculionidae
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Curculionini indet.
Latreille 1802
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| PE1992/324, 319, 108 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Brentidae
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Apioninae informal indet. 3
(Schoenherr 1823)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| original and current combination Apionidae | ||||||||||
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? Trachelizini informal indet. 1
Lacordaire 1865
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1992/118 (PE1992/331 is holotype of Eckfelderolispa petrefacta) | ||||||||||
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Eckfelderolispa petrefacta n. gen., n. sp.
Legalov and Wappler 2019
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Legalov and Wappler 2019 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| PE1992/331 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Cerambycidae
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Cerambycidae informal indet. 1
(Latreille 1802)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| Cerambicini | ||||||||||
| PE1992/189 | ||||||||||
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Cerambycidae informal indet. 2
(Latreille 1802)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| Cerambicini | ||||||||||
| PE1992/314, 512 | ||||||||||
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Cerambycidae informal indet. 3
(Latreille 1802)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| Cerambicini | ||||||||||
| PE1992/292 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Chrysomelidae
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Lamprosomatinae indet.
Lacordaire 1848
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1992/194 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Cleridae
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Cleridae indet.
(Latreille 1802)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| original and current combination Clerii | ||||||||||
| PE1992/343 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Buprestidae
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Coroebini informal indet. 3
Bedel 1921
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| corrected as Coraebini | ||||||||||
| PE1992/502 | ||||||||||
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Buprestinae informal indet. 2
Leach 1815
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1992/334 | ||||||||||
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Buprestis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1992/363 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Elateridae
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Lanelater nicoleae
Wappler 2003
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1992/79 | ||||||||||
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Macropunctum eckfeldi
Tröster 1992
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1992/192 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Throscidae
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Throscidae indet.
Laporte 1840
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1992/157 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Staphylinidae
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Pselaphinae indet.
(Latreille 1802)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| Pselaphii | ||||||||||
| PE 1992/330, 582 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Scarabaeidae
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Rutelinae indet.
(MacLeay 1819)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1992/491 a+b | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Geotrupidae
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Geotrupidae indet.
(Latreille 1802)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| Geotrupini | ||||||||||
| PE1992/411 a+b | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Lucanidae
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Lucanidae indet.
(Latreille 1804)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1992/362 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Carabidae
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Carabidae informal indet. 2
(Latreille 1802)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| PE 1992/558, 559 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Cupedidae
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? Tenomerga eckfeldense n. sp.
Tröster 1993
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Tröster 1993 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| recombined as Cupes eckfeldensis | ||||||||||
| PE 1992/461 a+b (2 measurements) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Eifel | County: | Eckfeld |
| Coordinates: | 50.1° North, 6.8° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 47.0° North, 2.9° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Lutetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | MP 13 | Zone: | MP 13 |
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Eifel | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 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 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination siltstone | ||
| Secondary lithology: | planar lamination "shale" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: ...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). | |||
| Environment: | crater lake | Tectonic setting: | volcanic basin |
| Geology comments: "a small freshwater [crater] lake a few hundred meters in diameter" (Franzen 2004) | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,adpression,original carbon |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1992 |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Nautrhistorisches Museum Mainz | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 135643 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | J. Karr, M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2012-10-30 05:17:41 | Last modified: | 2017-09-19 10:49:09 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-10-30 05:17:41 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 43376. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 77928 | A. A. Legalov and T. Wappler. 2019. The oldest record of straight-snouted weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Brentidae: Brentinae) from the Eocene of Germany. Historical Biology 33:1464-1472 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
| 52787 | H. Lutz. 1993. Eckfeldapis electrapoides nov. gen. n. sp., eine "Honigbiene" aus dem Mittel-Eozän des "Eckfelder Maares" bei Manderscheid/Eifel, Deutschland (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Apinae). Mainzer Naturwissenschaftliches Archiv 31:177-199 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
| 51776 | G. Tröster. 1993. Zwei neue mitteleuropäische Arten der Gattung Tenomerga Neboiss 1984 aus dem Mitteleozän der Grube Messel und des Eckfelder Maares (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Cupedidae). Mainzer Naturwissenschaftliches Archiv 31:169-176 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
| 51777 | T. Wappler and E. Heiss. 2006. Flatbugs from Paleogene limnic sediments. II. Eckfeld maar (Heteroptera: Aradidae). Mainzer Naturwissenschaftliches Archiv 44:53-60 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |