Also known as Messel Pit
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... 0.3-0.7 m above local stratigraphic marker Alpha."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified, carbonaceous claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression, soft parts
Reposited in the SMF
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: T. Wappler, E. Heiss, and S. Wedmann. 2015. New flatbug (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae) records from the Middle Eocene Messel Maar, Germany. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 89:653-660 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 173355: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.09.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
? Aneurus incertus n. sp.
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