Nördlinger Ries, near Wemding (Miocene of Germany)
Where: Germany (48.9° N, 10.7° E: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 9.3° E)
When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified siliciclastic sediments
• Approximately 24 km diameter lake formed by asteroid impact
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the BSP
Primary reference: Y. A. Popov. 1989. On the Miocene bug genus Diacorixa, with the description of a new fossil species from southern Germany (Insecta: Heteroptera, Corixidae). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 156:1-12 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 139832: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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