Where: Hessen, Germany (49.9° N, 8.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 4.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Messel Formation, MP 11 (48.6 - 40.4 Ma)
• ca 1 m above horizon alpha
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression, soft parts
Collected in 1981-1983; reposited in the SMF
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: G. Tröster. 1994. Neue Arten der Gattung Macropunctum (Insecta, Coleoptera, Elateridae) aus der Olschieferfazies der mitteleozänen Messelformation der Grube Messel bei Darmstadt. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 68:145-162 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 139217: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Buprestinae "indet. 2"1, Buprestinae "indet. 6"1, "Psilopterini "indet. 1"" = Dicercina1, ? Psiloptera "sp. 4"1, "Psiloptera (Damarsila) transversovittata" = Psiloptera transversovittata1
"Psiloptera (Damarsila) transversovittata" = Psiloptera transversovittata1 Haupt 1950 jewel beetle SMF MeI 1556
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"Macropunctum messelensis" = Macropunctum messelense2, Macropunctum senckenbergi n. sp., Macropunctum eocaenicum2, Macropunctum meunieri2, Macropunctum latiscutellum n. sp.
"Macropunctum messelensis" = Macropunctum messelense2 Tröster 1991 click beetle SMF MeI 675 (not 628, 696)
Macropunctum latiscutellum n. sp. Tröster 1994 click beetle SMF MeI 628,2671,5,14,230,244,256,627,696,1055,1399,2591,2882,3411
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