Oeningen (Knorr's Oddities of Nature collection) (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (47.7° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: MN 7 mammal zone, Upper Oehningen beds Member (Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation), Sarmatian (12.7 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified limestone

• "meromictic maar lake of approximately 1000 m in diameter and perhaps up to 100 m in depth" (Lutz, 1997). "Deposited in the Northern Alpine Foreland basin" (Uhl et al., 2006).
• "limestone" (Noble 1928)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by Knorr

• Plate 33, fig 5 in Knorr's "Oddities of Nature" is perhaps taken from this stone, based on its similar appearance.

Primary reference: O. Heer. 1849. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Zweiter Theil: Henschrecken, Florfliegen, Aderflügler, Schmetterlinge und Fliegen 1-264 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113711: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 04.08.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Orthoptera - Acrididae
Oedipoda oeningensis n. sp. Heer 1849 short-horned grasshopper
 Odonata -
"Libellula" eurynome Heer 1849 true dragonfly
larvae, common and almost as abundant as L. doris
"Libellula" thoe n. sp. Heer 1849 true dragonfly
larvae, specimens from multiple collections (not stated)