Schönenwald railway cutting, Grimmen (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (54.1° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 18.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Falciferum (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• Limestone concretions within the Lower Toarcian "Green series", ammonite zone of Harpoceras falciferum

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, carbonaceous shale

• bituminous shale ("bituminösen Schiefer")

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression, concretion

Collected by Ansorge; reposited in the MNHN

• Specimen LGA 2163 of Aenne liasina at Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Krakow

Primary reference: J. Ansorge. 1999. Aenne liasina gen. et sp. n. - the most primitive non biting midge (Diptera: Chironomidae: Aenninae subfam. n.) - from the Lower Jurassic of Germany. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 68:431-443 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151350: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.09.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Chironomidae
Aenne liasina Ansorge 1999 non biting midge
LGA 2011, 2012, 2163