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)
• From 1 m below to 2 m above horizon alpha
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression, soft parts
Collected in 1984; reposited in the SMF
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Repository: now FIS, Forschungsstation Grube Messel
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 139219: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Palaeoalatorostrum schaali2 Rheinheimer 2007 leaf rolling weevil MeI 1196 (from 2 m below to 2 m above alpha)
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? Dicerca "sp. 1"1, Psiloptera "sp. 1"1, "Psiloptera (Damarsila) transversovittata" = Psiloptera transversovittata1
"Psiloptera (Damarsila) transversovittata" = Psiloptera transversovittata1 Haupt 1950 jewel beetle SMF MeI 119, 1144, 1292
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"Macropunctum messelensis" = Macropunctum messelense3, Macropunctum eocaenicum3, Macropunctum rebugense n. sp.
"Macropunctum messelensis" = Macropunctum messelense3 Tröster 1991 click beetle SMF MeI 8, 760, 1132
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