Island of Fur (BMNH coll) (Eocene of Denmark)
Where: Denmark (56.8° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 5.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Moler Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Diatom-earth bed
Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, diatomaceous mudstone
• The depositional environment was in the Palaeocene–Eocene precursor of the North Sea, which was an almost or entirely enclosed inland body, open to the Atlantic at least at times (Bonde 1997).
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by W. Kuhne in 1937; reposited in the BMNH
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 123998: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Protochrysa aphrodite n. gen. n. sp.3
Protochrysa aphrodite n. gen. n. sp.3 Willmann and Brooks 1991 green lacewing BMNH I.36690 (coll. W. Kuhne)
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Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) freiwaldi n. sp.1, Dicranomyia speciosa n. sp.1, Dicranomyia thybotica1, Dicranomyia bellissima n. sp.1
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