PBDB Collection

Island of Fur (Fur Museum coll) (Eocene of Denmark)

Where: Denmark (56.8° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 5.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ølst Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• ash layer -33/-34

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified mudstone

• The depositional environment was in the Palaeocene–Eocene precursor of the North Sea, which was an almost or entirely enclosed inland body, open to the Atlantic at least at times (Bonde 1997).

• The Ølst Formation is composed of dark, mostly laminated clay, poor in diatoms and in some levels with laminated, hardened mudstones termed ‘‘shales,’’ which contain many insects, fishes as well as plant remains

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Fur Museum, Island of Fur, Jutland, Denmark

Primary reference: R. Willmann. 1990. Insekten aus der Fur-Formation von Dänemark (Moler, ob. Paleozän/unt. Eozän ?) 2. Dermaptera. Meyniana 42:15-23 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114154: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 11.08.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
Dermaptera - Forficulidae	Forficula paleocaenica Forficula paleocaenica Willmann 1990 common earwig FM 1071
Neuroptera - Ithonidae	Palaeopsychops latifasciatus² Palaeopsychops latifasciatus² Andersen 2001 moth lacewing FMF 12/3 95 4 F2
Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae	Ichneumonidae indet.⁵, Epitheronia stigmatica⁴, Xanthopimpla ciboisae⁴, Xanthopimpla crescendae⁴, Crusopimpla violina⁴, Crusopimpla minuta⁴ Ichneumonidae indet.⁵ Latreille 1802 ichneumon wasp FM 291, 295, 300 Epitheronia stigmatica⁴ Henriksen 1922 ichneumon wasp Tentatively FUR-9645, 10100, 11163, 11267, 11342, 13075, 15841 Xanthopimpla ciboisae⁴ Klopfstein 2022 ichneumon wasp Tentatively FUR-14684 Xanthopimpla crescendae⁴ Klopfstein 2022 ichneumon wasp Tentatively FUR-13068, 16642, 17232, 17235 Crusopimpla violina⁴ Klopfstein 2022 ichneumon wasp FUR-13817, 16633; tentatively 10048, 10049, 10248, 11211, 11266, 11549, 13070, 16638 Crusopimpla minuta⁴ Klopfstein 2022 ichneumon wasp Tentatively FUR-14944, 16636
Hemiptera - Gerridae	Palaeogerris grandis n. sp.¹, Palaeogerris furensis¹ Palaeogerris grandis n. sp.¹ Andersen 1998 water strider FM 220A/B Palaeogerris furensis¹ Andersen 1998 water strider FM 220
Diptera - Cylindrotomidae	Cylindrotoma larssoni³ Cylindrotoma larssoni³ Freiwald 1991 long bodied crane fly FM 374

¹Andersen 1998; ²Andersen 2001; ³Freiwald 1991; ⁴Klopfstein 2022; ⁵Rust 1990