Fur, horizon D (Fur Museum coll) (Eocene of Denmark)

Where: Denmark (56.8° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 5.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Moler Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, diatomaceous mudstone

• The depositional environment was in the Palaeocene–Eocene precursor of the North Sea, which was an almost or entirely enclosed inland body, open to the Atlantic at least at times (Bonde 1997).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Fur Museum

Primary reference: A. Freiwald. 1990. Insekten aus der Fur-Formation von Dänemark (Moler, ob. Paleozän/unt. Eozän ?) 4. Tipulidae. Meyniana 42:47-63 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152143: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.11.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Diptera - Tipulidae
Tipula binoculata
Tipula binoculata Henriksen 1922 crane fly
FM 753
 Dermaptera - Forficulidae
Forficula paleocaenica
Forficula paleocaenica Willmann 1990 common earwig
FM 264