Where: Germany (50.4° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 50.7° N, 7.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Oscar Böttger; reposited in the SMF
• Repository: Dicerca taschei was at Administration of the Salzhausen Lignite Mine. Böttger collection later donated to Senckenberg Museum (Breddin, 1901).
Primary reference: C. H. G. von Heyden. 1856. Reste von Insekten aus der Braunkohle von Salzhausen und Westerburg. Palaeontographica 4:198-201 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 152936: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Bibiopsis carbonum n. sp." = Penthetria carbonum3
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Lebia amissa n. sp.3
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Sphenoptera knopi n. sp.3, Dicerca taschei n. sp., Anthaxia carbonaria n. sp.3, ? Anthaxia primaeva n. sp.3, Anthaxia deleta n. sp.3
Dicerca taschei n. sp. von Heyden 1856 jewel beetle Collected by Tasche and stored at Salzhausen Lignite Mine
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Attagenus extinctus n. sp.3
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Oberea praemortua n. sp.2
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"Helops wetteravicus n. sp." = Anthracohelops wetteravicus3
"Helops wetteravicus n. sp." = Anthracohelops wetteravicus3 von Heyden and von Heyden 1865 darkling beetle | |
"Nepticula fossilis n. sp." = Stigmellites fossilis2
"Nepticula fossilis n. sp." = Stigmellites fossilis2 von Heyden 1862 moth Found by Herr Plock and donated to SMF; another found by Bottger.
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Pentatoma boettgeri3 von Heyden and von Heyden 1865 stink bug Breddin describes and illustrates a specimen, probably the same one
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