Kralah near Hildesheim (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.2° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 9.5° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• From the insect bed lying above the Rhaetic bone bed

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray shale

• European epicontinental seaway

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Hermann Roemer

Primary reference: F. Roemer. 1876. Notiz über ein Vorkommen von fossilen Käfern (Coleopteren) im Rhät bei Hildesheim. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 28:350-353 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130420: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 09.07.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera -
"Elateropsis infraliassica n. sp." = Pseudoelateropsis infraliassica, Eocoleopteron roemeri n. sp., Helopides hildesiensis n. gen. n. sp.
"Elateropsis infraliassica n. sp." = Pseudoelateropsis infraliassica Roemer 1876 beetle
Eocoleopteron roemeri n. sp. Handlirsch 1906 beetle
Helopides hildesiensis n. gen. n. sp. Roemer 1876 beetle