Höhgau (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (47.8° N, 8.7° E: paleocoordinates 48.1° N, 8.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified tuff

• "Phonolith-Tuffs"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: Repository: private collection of Herr Dr. Jul. Schill in Freiburg im Breisgau

Primary reference: C. von Heyden. 1862. Gliederthiere aus der Braunkohle des Niederrhein's, der Wetterau und der Röhn. Palaeontographica 10:62-82 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152952: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Dytiscidae
Dytiscus avunculus n. sp. von Heyden 1862 predaceous diving beetle