Bilina mine, Bílina (Delta Sandy horizon) (Miocene of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (50.6° N, 13.7° E: paleocoordinates 50.8° N, 12.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Most Formation, MN 3 (20.0 - 16.9 Ma)

• Eggenburgian/Ottnangian, Early Miocene (Burdigalian), zone MN 3a. Delta Sandy horizon.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine deltaic; lithified, brown claystone

• Most Basin is the largest preserved sedimentary basin within the Eger Graben, the easternmost part of the European Cenozoic Rift System (ECRIS).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Zdeněk Dvořák

• Repository: collection of Bílina Mine in Bílina

Primary reference: J. Prokop and A. Nel. 1999. Tertiary termite from the Bílina mine locality in northern Bohemia (Isoptera: Hodotermitidae). Klapalekiana 35:141-144 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 150934: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.09.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Odonata - Aeshnidae
Aeshnidae indet.2
Aeshnidae indet.2 Leach 1815 darner dragonfly
ZD282
 Blattodea -
Ulmeriella cf. bauckhorni
Ulmeriella cf. bauckhorni Meunier 1920 termite
ZD9715
 Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Dicerca bilinica n. sp.1
Dicerca bilinica n. sp.1 Prokop and Bílý 1999 jewel beetle
ZD9704
1Prokop and Bílý 1999; 2Prokop et al. 2016