Where: Hessen, Germany (49.9° N, 8.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 4.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Messel Formation, MP 11 (48.6 - 40.4 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression, soft parts
Reposited in the SMF
Collection methods: quarrying
• Repository: now FIS, Forschungsstation Grube Messel
Primary reference: G. Tröster. 1991. Eine neue Gattung der Elateridae (Insecta: Coleoptera) Macropunctum gen. n. aus der Messel-Formation des unteren Mittel-Eozän der Fundstätte Messel. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 139:99-117 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 162181: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
? Dicerca "sp. 1", "Psiloptera (Damarsila) transversovittata" = Psiloptera transversovittata
"Psiloptera (Damarsila) transversovittata" = Psiloptera transversovittata Haupt 1950 jewel beetle SMF MeI 488
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"Macropunctum messelensis" = Macropunctum messelense
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