Willershausen clay pit (Ruhr Museum Essen collection) (Pliocene of Germany)

Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (51.8° N, 10.1° E: paleocoordinates 51.9° N, 9.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• MN16/17 land mammal ages

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; lithified marl

• Pond (about 200 m wide and 10 m deep) formed above collapse sinkhole (not volcanic, but subsidence mechanism is similar to volcanic calderas).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by Ernst Edinger

• Repository: Ruhr Museum Essen (RE)

Primary reference: J. Kolibáč, B. Adroit, E. Gröning, C. Brauckmann, and T. Wappler. 2016. First record of the family Trogossitidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) in the Late Pliocene deposits of Willershausen (Germany). PalZ 90:681-689 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182675: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Peltidae
Peltis antehercynica n. sp.
Peltis antehercynica n. sp. Kolibáč et al. 2016 shield beetle
RE 551.782.200 A 0083