Lehmhagen, near Grimmen (Zessin collection) (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (54.1° N, 13.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 18.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dactylioceras tenuicostatum zone, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• unnamed "bituminous shale bed" equivalent to Posidonian Shale (Posidonienschiefer); Lias epsilon level = lowest Toarcian; also lower part of Harpoceras falcifer Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; carbonaceous shale

• bituminous shale ("bituminösen Schiefer")

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression, concretion

Collected by Zessin; reposited in the MfN

Primary reference: W. Zessin. 1983. Revision der mesozoischen Familie Locustopsidae unter Berücksichtigung neuer Funde (Orthopteroida, Caelifera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 30:173-237 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114992: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 26.08.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Orthoptera - Elcanidae
"Elcana geinitzi" = Panorpidium geinitzi2, "Elcana minima" = Panorpidium minima2, "Elcana magna" = Panorpidium magna2
"Elcana geinitzi" = Panorpidium geinitzi2 Heer 1880 grasshopper
LG 157
"Elcana minima" = Panorpidium minima2 Handlirsch 1906 grasshopper
LG 448/1/2
"Elcana magna" = Panorpidium magna2 Handlirsch 1906 grasshopper
LG 89, 342/1/2
 Orthoptera - Locustopsidae
Locustopsis sippeli n. sp. Zessin 1983 grasshopper
LG 394/1(2)
 Diptera - Limoniidae
"Architipula (Grimmenia) prima n. sp." = Grimmenia prima1, "Architipula (Grimmenia) secunda n. sp." = Grimmenia secunda1, "Mesotipula cf. vicina" = Mesotipula (Mesotipula) vicina1, "Mesotipula mirabilis n. sp." = Mesotipula (Mesotipula) mirabilis1, "Mesotipula siggiae n. sp." = Mesotipula (Mesotipula) siggiae1
"Architipula (Grimmenia) prima n. sp." = Grimmenia prima1 Krzemiński and Zessin 1990 crane fly
LG 202
"Architipula (Grimmenia) secunda n. sp." = Grimmenia secunda1 Krzemiński and Zessin 1990 crane fly
LG 371/1(2)
"Mesotipula cf. vicina" = Mesotipula (Mesotipula) vicina1 Handlirsch 1939 crane fly
LG 450/1, 3
"Mesotipula mirabilis n. sp." = Mesotipula (Mesotipula) mirabilis1 Krzemiński and Zessin 1990 crane fly
LG 330, 90, 392, 427/2, 450/6
"Mesotipula siggiae n. sp." = Mesotipula (Mesotipula) siggiae1 Krzemiński and Zessin 1990 crane fly
LG 440/1(2)