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
Collected in 1986; reposited in the SMF
Collection methods: quarrying
• Repository: now FIS, Forschungsstation Grube Messel
Primary reference: T. Hörnschemeyer. 1994. Ein fossiler Tenebrionide Ceropria? messelense n. sp. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Diaperinae) aus dem Mitteleozän der Grube Messel bei Darmstadt. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 170:75-83 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 163150: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.10.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
? Ceropria messelense n. sp.
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Eubrianacinae indet. Jacobson 1913 water penny beetle |