Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (50.7° N, 7.3° E: paleocoordinates 50.6° N, 4.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rott Formation, MP 30 (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, fine-grained, brown lignite
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the BSP
• Repository: Munich museum (presumably now Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie München)
Primary reference: P. Oppenheim. 1885. Die Ahnen unserer Schmetterlinge in der Sekundär- und Tertiärperiode. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 29:331-349 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 152863: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Ocnerites macroceraticus n. gen. n. sp.
Ocnerites macroceraticus n. gen. n. sp. Oppenheim 1885 large caddisfly |