Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.6° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 48.8° N, 8.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Randeck Maar Formation, MN 5 (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)
• Early/Middle Miocene (Burdigalian, Karpatian, MN 5, ca. 16–18 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified, carbonaceous lime mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: L. Armbruster. 1938. Versteinerte Honigbienen aus dem obermiocänen Randecker Maar. Archiv für Bienenkunde 19:1-48 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 109058: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.05.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Miotermes randeckensis n. sp.8
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Eutermes fraasi n. sp.8
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Diacorixa germanica n. sp.4
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"Apis armbrusteri" = Apis armbrusteri3, "Hauffapis scheeri" = Apis armbrusteri, "Hauffapis scheuthlei" = Apis armbrusteri
"Apis armbrusteri" = Apis armbrusteri3 Zeuner 1931 Armbruster's honey bee SMNS 64671/11a, 11bc, 12, 17, 18, 19, 21, 28, 30, 31, 35, 36, 38, 49, 50, 64675
"Hauffapis scheeri" = Apis armbrusteri Zeuner 1931 Armbruster's honey bee No. 49 (coll. O. Fraas 1859)
"Hauffapis scheuthlei" = Apis armbrusteri Zeuner 1931 Armbruster's honey bee No. 47, 48 (coll. O. Fraas 1859)
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Helophilus nothobombus n. sp.2
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Euophrys randeckensis n. sp.7
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