Oeningen (von Fürstenberg 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

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by Prince Karl Egon zu Furstenberg

Primary reference: O. Heer. 1847. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Erster Theil: Käfer 1-229 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117338: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Diptera - Bibionidae
Bibio moestus
Bibio moestus Heer 1849 march fly
 Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Melolonthites aciculata n. sp.
Melolonthites aciculata n. sp. Heer 1847 scarab beetle
 Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
"Hydrophilus rehmanni n. sp." = Hydrochara noachica
"Hydrophilus rehmanni n. sp." = Hydrochara noachica Heer 1847 water scavenger beetle
 Coleoptera - Anthribidae
Anthribites moussonii
Anthribites moussonii Heer 1847 fungus weevil
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Formica primordialis
Formica primordialis Heer 1849 ant
worker