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)
• "lower Middle Eocene, lower-most Geiseltalian, Mammal Paleogene level 11… .575 to .77 m above local stratigraphic marker Alpha."
• 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,
Primary reference: T. Hörnschemeyer and S. Wedmann. 1994. Fossile Prachtkäfer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae) aus dem Mitteleozän der Grube Messel bei Darmstadt, Teil 1. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 170:85-136 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 163334: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.10.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Rhyssella vera n. sp.
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Buprestinae "indet. 4", "Psilopterini "genus 1"" = Dicercina, Psiloptera "sp. 1", ? Psiloptera "sp. 3"
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