Kerkhofen (Ansorge coll) (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Baden-Würtemberg, Germany (49.2° N, 11.4° E: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 19.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Posidonia Shale Formation, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, nodular claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J. Ansorge; reposited in the MfN

Primary reference: J. Ansorge. 2002. Revision of the "Trichoptera" described by Geinitz and Handlirsch from the Lower Toarcian of Dobbertin (Germany) based on new material. Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Trichoptera - Nova Supplementa Entomologica 15:55-74 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151351: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.09.2013

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Taxonomic list

• Specimen are from the private collection of J. Ansorge, later to be housed at the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität, Berlin
Insecta
 Necrotrichoptera - Necrotauliidae
Necrotaulius parvulus Geinitz 1884 winged insect
RMD 11