Oeningen (von Breda 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 Von Breda; reposited in the BMNH

• Heeralydus bucculatus in Teyler Museum

Primary reference: O. Heer. 1853. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Dritte Theil: Rhynchoten 1-138 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122872: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.01.2012, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Odonata - Sieblosiidae
Germanostenolestes lutzi n. gen. n. sp.2
Germanostenolestes lutzi n. gen. n. sp.2 Nel and Fleck 2012 damselfly
NHM OR 59573
 Orthoptera - Tettigoniidae
Platycleis speciosa4
Platycleis speciosa4 Heer 1864 katydid
BMNH In. 34931-933
 Hemiptera - Alydidae
Heeralydus bucculatus n. gen. n. sp.3
Heeralydus bucculatus n. gen. n. sp.3 Štys and Říha 1975 broad-headed bug
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Homopus scutella1
Homopus scutella1 Meyer 1845 cape tortoise
BMNH 42886, slab with dorsal aspect of carapace
1Lydekker 1889; 2Nel and Fleck 2012; 3Štys and Říha 1975; 4Zeuner 1939