Where: Germany (50.7° N, 7.3° E: paleocoordinates 50.6° N, 4.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rott Formation, MP 30 (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, fine-grained, brown lignite
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by J. Goerges; reposited in the SMF
Primary reference: V. V. Zherikhin. 1992. Tertiary weevils (Insecta, Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), identified from collections of the Senckenberg Museum. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 72:169-178 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 162049: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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? Cartorhynchites struvei n. sp., Opacoinvolvulus zherichini n. sp., "Involvulus rottensis n. sp." = Opacoinvolvulus rottensis, "Coenorhinus goergesi n. sp." = Tatianaerhynchites goergesi
"Involvulus rottensis n. sp." = Opacoinvolvulus rottensis Zherikhin 1992 tooth-nosed snout weevil SMF VI 161
"Coenorhinus goergesi n. sp." = Tatianaerhynchites goergesi Zherikhin 1992 tooth-nosed snout weevil SMF VI 154, 169
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