Solnhofen (Humboldt Museum, Berlin coll) (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Bavaria, Germany (48.9° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 19.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hybonoticeras hybonotum ammonoid zone, Upper Member (Solnhofen Formation), Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, gray, calcareous lime mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the MfN

• Specimens at Humboldt Museum fur Naturkunde / Geological Institute, University of Berlin

Primary reference: F. E. Zeuner. 1939. Fossil Orthoptera Ensifera 1-321 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123994: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.02.2012, edited by Andrew Spencer-Lee

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Ephemeroptera - Hexagenitidae
Hexagenites cellulosus3 Hagen 1862 mayfly
Redtenbaher collection (illustrated as "Strudelloch eines Insektes" by Walther 1904 (fig. 18)
 Odonata - Eumorbaeschnidae
Eumorbaeschna jurassica4 Carpenter 1932 true dragonfly
MfN MB.J 1734
 Odonata - Cymatophlebiidae
Cymatophlebia longialata2 Germar 1839 true dragonfly
MB.J 1699, 1700, 1725-1729, 1731, 1738, 1740, 1749 (=MB.1969.54.90), 1751 (=MB.1973.17.14), 1754
 Odonata - Mesuropetalidae
"Mesuropetala muensteri" = Mesuropetala muensteri2, "Mesuropetala koehleri" = Mesuropetala muensteri7
"Mesuropetala muensteri" = Mesuropetala muensteri2 Germar 1839 true dragonfly
MB.J 1707, 1708, 1710, 1711, 1733
"Mesuropetala koehleri" = Mesuropetala muensteri7 Germar 1839 true dragonfly
MB.J 1441
 Odonata - Aktassiidae
Aeschnogomphus sp.7 Handlirsch 1906 true dragonfly
MB.J 1723, 1724
Aeschnogomphus intermedius7 Munster 1839 true dragonfly
MB.J 1649, 1651, 1744, 1745
 Odonata - Protolindeniidae
Protolindenia wittei7 Giebel 1860 true dragonfly
MfN MB.J 1706, 1709, 1713, 1730, 676
 Odonata - Aeschnidiidae
Urogomphus giganteus1 Germar 1839 small darner
MB.J 1721
 Orthoptera - Gryllidae
Gryllidae "indet. 4" Laicharting 1781 true crickets
Redenbacher No. II
 Dicondylia - Chresmodidae
Chresmoda obscura5 Germar 1839 winged insect
Cordulegaster
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"Anax buchii n. sp." = Cordulegaster buchi6
"Anax buchii n. sp." = Cordulegaster buchi6 Hagen 1848 spiketail
MBJ 841 (holotype according to Nel et al., 1998), MBJ 1722