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

Insecta
 Odonata - Euphaeidae
Labandeiraia europae2 Petrulevičius et al. 2007 damselfly
BMNH In. 37782
 Neuroptera - Chrysopidae
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)
 Orthoptera - Tettigoniidae
Pseudotettigonia amoena Henriksen 1929 katydid
BMNH In. 36700-702, 36749
 Diptera - Cylindrotomidae
Cyttaromyia vahldieki1 Freiwald 1991 long bodied crane fly
BMNH In. 36663
 Diptera - Tipulidae
Tipula limfjordensis1 Freiwald 1990 crane fly
BMNH In. 36691, 36707, 36718
 Diptera - Limoniidae
Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) freiwaldi n. sp.1 Krzemiński 2001 crane fly
BMNH In. 36720, 36763
Dicranomyia speciosa n. sp.1 Krzemiński 2001 crane fly
BMNH In. 36692, 36658
Dicranomyia thybotica1 Henriksen 1922 crane fly
BMNH In. 36741(36740), 36760
Dicranomyia bellissima n. sp.1 Krzemiński 2001 crane fly
BMNH In. 36716, 36684