Oeningen (BMNH collection) (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (47.7° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN 7 mammal zone, Upper Oehningen beds Member (Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation), Sarmatian (12.7 - 11.6 Ma)

• From the Kesselstein

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified limestone

• "meromictic maar lake of approximately 1000 m in diameter and perhaps up to 100 m in depth" (Lutz, 1997). "Deposited in the Northern Alpine Foreland basin" (Uhl et al., 2006).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Reposited in the BMNH

• Koenig does not state a repository or collection for his material, but he worked at the BMNH so it is possible the specimen is/was in that collection.

Primary reference: C. D. E. Koenig. 1825. Icones Fossilium Sectiles, Centuria Prima 1-4 [G. Webster/G. Webster/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151877: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.10.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Odonata - Libellulidae
Libellula oeningensis n. sp.
Libellula oeningensis n. sp. Koenig 1825 common skimmer
Illustration shows two larvae on same slab