Where: Germany (50.1° N, 8.7° E: paleocoordinates 50.1° N, 8.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• Interpreted as Pliocene clay lens in older Pleistocene river terrace deposits, by Rietschel (1983). Quaternary fluvial terrace deposits dated by paleomagnetism as latest Calabrian-Middle Pleistocene by Semmel & Fromm (1976). Flora-bearing clay beds in the Frankfurt area dated as Reuverian on the basis of palynology, by Kvacek et al. (2019).

Environment/lithology: pond; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the SMF

Primary reference: S. Rietschel. 1983. Aleurochiton petri n. sp., eine Mottenschildlaus (Homoptera, Aleyrodina) aus dem Pliozän von Neu-Isenburg, Hessen. Carolinea 41:97-100 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207260: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.01.2020

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