Where: Austria (47.4° N, 15.1° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 14.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)
• Age given as Carpatien- Badenien inferieur
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lithified, black lignite
•"According to Neubauer et al. (2000), the Leoben Basin formed as a halfgraben in a general strike-slip setting. It was later deformed by N–S shortening leading to reverse faulting along the southern margin of the basin." Gruber & Sachsenhofer, 2001
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Prof. Hofmann in 1889; reposited in the NHMW
Primary reference: A. Handlirsch. 1907. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts V-VII. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 641-1120 [C. Labandeira/A. Spencer-Lee/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 131964: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.08.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Lithogomphus muenzenbergianus n. gen. n. sp.
Lithogomphus muenzenbergianus n. gen. n. sp. Beier 1952 clubtail dragonfly NHMW 1889/98 (?Gomphidae or Libellulidae in Handlirsch 1908, p. 905)
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Mesohalys muenzenbergiana n. gen. n. sp.
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