Baruth (Bayreuth) (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Germany (50.0° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 50.2° N, 10.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Environment unknown, assumed to be terrestrial. Western extent of Eger Graben system.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: E. F. Germar. 1837. Insectorum protogaeae specimen sistens insecta carbonum fossilium. Fauna Insectorum Europae 19 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117341: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 19.09.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Buprestidae
"Buprestis carbonum" = Buprestites carbonum
"Buprestis carbonum" = Buprestites carbonum Germar 1837 jewel beetle
 Diptera - Empididae
Empis carbonum n. sp.
Empis carbonum n. sp. Germar 1837 dagger fly