Randeck Maar (Wunderlich coll) (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.6° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 48.8° N, 8.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Randeck Maar Formation, MN 5 (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)

• Early/Middle Miocene (Burdigalian, Karpatian, MN 5, ca. 16–18 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified, carbonaceous lime mudstone

• Volcanic lake
• Bituminous laminites ("dysodiles") and laminated, varve-like limestones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by K.Kratschmer, H. Erlich

• Repository: collection of Jörg Wunderlich

Primary reference: J. Wunderlich. 1985. Ein bisher unbekannte fossile Krabbenspinne aus dem Randecker Maar in Südwest-Deutschland (Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 14:4-13 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146880: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.07.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
 Araneae - Thomisidae
Palaeoxysticus extinctus n. gen. n. sp.
Palaeoxysticus extinctus n. gen. n. sp. Wunderlich 1985 crab spider