Oeningen (Lacoe collection) (Miocene of Germany)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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 class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Lacoe

Primary reference: S. H. Scudder. 1895. The Miocene insect-fauna of Oeningen, Baden. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade IV 2:116-122 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113830: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 05.08.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Diptera - Tabanidae
Tabanidae indet.
Tabanidae indet. Latreille 1802 horse fly
Lacoe 7056
 Diptera - Mycetophilidae
Necromyza pedata n. gen. n. sp.
Necromyza pedata n. gen. n. sp. Scudder 1895 fungus gnat
Lacoe 6893
 Orthoptera - Acrididae
"Acridium oeningense n. sp." = Heeracris oeningensis
"Acridium oeningense n. sp." = Heeracris oeningensis Scudder 1895 short-horned grasshopper
Lacoe 6844
 Orthoptera - Tettigoniidae
? Platycleis sp., "Drymadusa speciosa" = Platycleis speciosa
? Platycleis sp. Fieber 1853 katydid
Lacoe 6861
"Drymadusa speciosa" = Platycleis speciosa Heer 1864 katydid
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Calosoma heeri n. sp.
Calosoma heeri n. sp. Scudder 1895 ground beetle
Lacoe 4873, 4878
 Odonata - Sieblosiidae
Stenolestes iris
Stenolestes iris Heer 1879 damselfly