Where: France (47.7° N, 7.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 3.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• Lutz (1997) and Mai (1995) assign the age of Brunstatt and Kleinkems to the Lower Oligocene, but Mai (1995) also allocated Brunstatt to the Mammal Reference Level MP20 which corresponds to the Priabonian (37.2–33.9 Ma) in the latest part of the Eocene. Thus, the stratigraphical position of Brunstatt and Kleinkems seems to be close to the Eocene-Oligocene boundary.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified marl
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression
Primary reference: N. Theobald. 1937. Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France. Bulletin Mensuel (Mémoires) de la Société des Sciences de Nancy 1:1-473 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122408: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 25.12.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Exechia distincta n. sp.
Exechia distincta n. sp. Theobald 1937 fungus gnat | |
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Dytiscus cf. lavateri Heer 1847 predaceous diving beetle | |
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Ichneumon pteromajus n. sp.
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Bracon induratum n. sp.
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Solenopsis superba, Solenopsis foersteri, Solenopsis blanda, "Aphaenogaster maculipes" = Paraphaenogaster maculipes
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