2 km north of Chiuzbaia (Miocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (47.7° N, 23.7° E: paleocoordinates 47.4° N, 23.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pannonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• Pannonian G-H, equivalent to Tortonian

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified diatomite

• Pannonian basin

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Institut fur Geologie, Bucharest

Primary reference: R. Kohring. 1989. Megarhynchaenus schalowae n. g. n. sp., ein neuer Curculionide (Insecta: Coleoptera) aus dem Pannonium von Rumänien. Documenta Naturae 56:29-32 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160008: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.08.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Megarhynchaenus schalowae n. gen. n. sp. Kohring 1989 snout beetle
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