Oeningen (Whidborne collection) (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (47.7° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN 7 mammal zone, Upper Oehningen beds Member (Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation), Sarmatian (12.7 - 11.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified limestone

• "meromictic maar lake of approximately 1000 m in diameter and perhaps up to 100 m in depth" (Lutz, 1997). "Deposited in the Northern Alpine Foreland basin" (Uhl et al., 2006).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Reposited in the SM

• Cockerell examined the material while visiting Prof. Marr at Cambridge University

Primary reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1922. A new fossil longicorn beetle. The Entomologist 55:176-178 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162208: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Gonophora bremii Heer 1847 tortoise beetle
 Coleoptera - Cerambycidae
Ergates atavellus n. sp. Cockerell 1922 longhorned beetle