Schandelah, near Braunschweig (PIN Collection 4779) (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (52.3° N, 10.7° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 17.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Posidonia Shale Formation, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale

• "Soft, fine splitting marl slate"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Yuri Popov in 1986; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn, J. Ansorge, and W. Zessin. 2003. New hymenopterous insects (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from the lower Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of Germany. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 227:321-342 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154299: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.02.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Sepulcidae
Xyelula benderi
Xyelula benderi Rasnitsyn et al. 2003 stem sawfly
PIN 4779/1, 2