Where: Denmark (56.8° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 5.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fur Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Specimens are from between ash layers +28 & +24
•Earliest Early Eocene "An Early Eocene age of 54.04 ± 0.14 Ma has been determined for layer +19 and 54.52 ± 0.05 Ma for layer −17 by the Ar40–Ar39 method (Chambers et al. 2003).
Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified diatomite and carbonate
•"The Danish insects discussed here are from the marine Fur Formation, about 50-60 m of diatomite and tephra layers, which, with the Ølst Formation, constitute the Mo-clay in the northern Jutland region" Archibald & Makarkin, 2006
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: Repository: Geological (Mineralogical) Museum, University of Copenhagen
Primary reference: O. E. Heie. 1967. Studies on fossil aphids (Homoptera: Aphidoidea), especially in the Copenhagen collection of fossils in Baltic amber. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis 26:1-274 [M. Clapham/A. Noshirvan/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 120020: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 06.11.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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