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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Arachnida | |
Palaeoxysticus extinctus n. gen. n. sp.
Palaeoxysticus extinctus n. gen. n. sp. Wunderlich 1985 crab spider |