Randeck Maar (Ruhr Museum Essen collection) (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.6° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 48.8° N, 8.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Randeck Maar Formation, MN 5 (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)

• Early/Middle Miocene (Burdigalian, Karpatian, MN 5, ca. 16–18 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified, carbonaceous lime mudstone

• Volcanic lake, Volcanic crater (1.2 km diameter, about 150 m depth) Brackish meromictic lake
• Bituminous laminites ("dysodiles") and laminated, varve-like limestones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Ruhr Museum Essen (RE)

Primary reference: W. Zessin. 2019. Eine neue fossile Libelle (Libellulidae: Randecktrum ebi gen. nov. sp. nov.) aus dem Miozän des Randecker Maars. Libellula Supplement 15:203-216 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 215189: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.10.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Odonata - Libellulidae
Randecktrum ebi n. gen. n. sp.
Randecktrum ebi n. gen. n. sp. Zessin 2019 common skimmer
RE 565.733.000 A 0001