Enspel, horizon S16 (Oligocene of Germany)

Where: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (50.6° N, 7.9° E: paleocoordinates 50.5° N, 5.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MP 28 (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Age is MP 28 based on occurrence Eomys quercyi

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified, volcaniclastic shale and tuff

• "bituminous volcanoclastic shales which are episodically intercalated with tuffs"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: quarrying

• Excavation since 1990 by [the government of] Rheinland-Pfalz. Specimens deposited in the Landesamt fur Denkmalpflege Rheinland-Pfalz.

Primary reference: S. Wedmann. 1998. First records of fossil tremecine hymenopterans. Palaeontology 41:929-938 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160097: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.08.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Siricidae
Eriotremex sp.1
Eriotremex sp.1 Benson 1943 horntail
Eriotremex or Afrotremex (no. 9604); fossil site 6
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Myrmicinae indet.2, Myrmica schaefersi n. sp.2, Myrmica cf. schaefersi2, Myrmica nungesseri n. sp.2, Paraphaenogaster sp.2, Paraphaenogaster schindleri n. sp.2, Paraphaenogaster wettlauferi n. sp.2, Paraphaenogaster loosi n. sp.2, Paraphaenogaster wuttkei n. sp.2, Paraphaenogaster cf. wuttkei2, Goniomma poschmanni n. sp.2
Myrmicinae indet.2 Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau 1835 ant
NHMM-PE2011/5020-LS
Myrmica schaefersi n. sp.2 Jessen 2020 ant
NHMM-PE2009/5826-LS
Myrmica cf. schaefersi2 Jessen 2020 ant
NHMM-PE2010/5676-LS
Myrmica nungesseri n. sp.2 Jessen 2020 ant
NHMM-PE2001/5066-LS
Paraphaenogaster sp.2 Dlussky 1981 ant
NHMM-PE1995/5175-LS, NHMM-PE2010/5697-LS, PE1997/6133-LS
Paraphaenogaster schindleri n. sp.2 Jessen 2020 ant
NHMM-PE2001/5065-LS
Paraphaenogaster wettlauferi n. sp.2 Jessen 2020 ant
NHMM-PE1995/5604-LS
Paraphaenogaster loosi n. sp.2 Jessen 2020 ant
NHMM-PE1995/5503-LS
Paraphaenogaster wuttkei n. sp.2 Jessen 2020 ant
NHMM-PE1997/5513-LS
Paraphaenogaster cf. wuttkei2 Jessen 2020 ant
NHMM-PE1995/6227-LS
Goniomma poschmanni n. sp.2 Jessen 2020 ant
NHMM-PE2009/6281-LS
 Mecoptera - Bittacidae
Eremobittacus opeth n. sp.3
Eremobittacus opeth n. sp.3 Poschmann and Nel 2022 hangingfly
NHMMZ PE 2006/5031- LS
 Hemiptera - Aradidae
Neuroctenus enspelensis n. sp.4
Neuroctenus enspelensis n. sp.4 Wappler and Heiss 2006 flat bug
LDRP 5992 (pl 2 fig 3 in Wedmann 2000); fossil site G2
1Archibald and Rasnitsyn 2022; 2Jessen 2020; 3Poschmann and Nel 2022; 4Wappler and Heiss 2006