Where: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (50.6° N, 7.9° E: paleocoordinates 50.5° N, 5.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MP 28 (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Age is MP 28 based on occurrence Eomys quercyi

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified, volcaniclastic shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: quarrying

• Excavation since 1990 by [the government of] Rheinland-Pfalz. Specimens deposited in the Landesamt fur Denkmalpflege Rheinland-Pfalz.

Primary reference: K. Jessen. 2020. New fossil ants of the subfamily Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Upper Oligocene of Enspel (Westerwald Mountains, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 100:1007-1045 [M. Clapham/N. Vachharajani/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123354: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.01.2012

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