Böttingen (SMNS collection): Sarmatian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Arachnida - Araneae
Araneae indet. Clerck 1757
1 specimen
Arachnida - Scorpiones - Scorpionidae
Scorpio zeuneri n. sp. Hadzi 1931
Hadzi 1931 8 specimens
recombined as Mioscorpio zeuneri
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 95
Malacostraca - Isopoda
Isopoda indet. Latreille 1817
1 specimen
Myriapoda - Julida - Julidae
Julidae indet. Leach 1814
2 specimens
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 77, 78
Julus cf. antiquus Bertkau 1878
Dietlen 1899 1 specimen
    = Julus suevicus n. sp. Dietlen 1902
Dietlen 1902
Insecta - Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera indet. Linnaeus 1758
5 specimens
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 12, 16, 17, 18, 48
? Pyralidae indet. Latreille 1809
3 specimens
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 11, 15, 19
    = Lepidoptera indet. Linnaeus 1758
Heikkilä et al. 2018
Insecta - Lepidoptera - Nymphalidae
Nymphalidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
1 specimen
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 46
    = Nymphalites sp. Scudder 1889
Kozlov 1988
Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Lixus sp. Fabricius 1801
1 specimen
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 20
Otiorrhynchus boettingensis n. sp. van Emden 1931
1 specimen
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 22 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae
Elateridae indet. Leach 1815
1 specimen
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 21
Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
Hydrophilus caraboides (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
recombined as Hydrochara caraboides
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 24
Hydrophilus kuntzeni n. sp. Zeuner 1931
2 specimens
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 23, 25
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae
Apis armbrusteri Zeuner 1931
16 specimens
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 47 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Sphecidae
Sphex bischoffi n. sp. Zeuner 1931
1 specimen
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 26 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Mantodea - Mantidae
Mantis boettingensis n. sp. Zeuner 1931
1 specimen
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 10 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Orthoptera - Acrididae
Acrididae indet. (Latreille 1802)
6 specimens
original and current combination Acrydiana
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 7, 8, 40, 42, 58, 92 (6 measurements)
? Protocatantops sp. Zeuner 1931
1 specimen
SMNS Coll. 6
    = Catantopinae indet. Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
Zeuner 1941
Miocaenacris soergeli n. gen., n. sp. Zeuner 1931
2 specimens
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 45, 44
Protocatantops gracilis n. gen., n. sp. Zeuner 1931
2 specimens
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 2, 5
Protocatantops miocaenicus n. sp. Zeuner 1931
2 specimens
nomen dubium belonging to Catantopinae
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 3, 4
Insecta - Orthoptera - Gryllotalpidae
Gryllotalpa miocaenica n. sp. Zeuner 1931
1 specimen
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 9 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Orthoptera - Tettigoniidae
Rammea laticeps n. gen., n. sp. Zeuner 1931
1 specimen
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 1 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Odonata - Aeshnidae
Aeschnidae indet. (Leach 1815)
1 specimen
original and current combination Aeshnidae
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 28
Insecta - Diptera
Syrphopsis globosiceps n. gen., n. sp. Zeuner 1931
1 specimen
SMNS Bottingen Coll. 29 (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Wurttemberg
Coordinates: 48.4° North, 9.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.7° North, 8.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Serravallian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Sarmatian
Age range of interval:12.80000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Thermalsinterkalk
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified travertine
Lithology description: Hydrothermal travertine
Environment:spring Tectonic setting:volcanic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,permineralized
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:SMNS
Metadata
Also known as:Bottingen; Böttinger Marmor
Database number:113752
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2011-08-04 16:41:07 Last modified:2015-12-15 19:02:16
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-04 16:41:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
51393. F. E. Zeuner. 1931. Die Insektenfauna des Böttinger Marmors. Fortschritte der Geologie und Palaeontologie 9:247-406 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

51394 R. Dietlen. 1899. Julus cfr. antiquus und sonstige Funde aus dem Böttinger Sprudelkalk. Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 55:390-397 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
51395 R. Dietlen. 1902. Nachtrag zu "Julus cfr. antiquus und sonstige Funde aus dem Böttinger Sprudelkalk". Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 58:83-85 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
51397 J. Hadzi. 1931. Skorpionenreste aus dem tertiären Sprudelsinter von Böttingen (Schwäbische Alb). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 13:134-148 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
66839 M. Heikkilä, T. J. Simonsen, and M. A. Solis. 2018. Reassessment of known fossil Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) with descriptions of the oldest fossil pyraloid and a crambid larva in Baltic amber. Zootaxa 4483:101-127 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
49610 E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering. 1986. A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world. Palaeontographica Americana 55:1-287 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
48438 M. V. Kozlov. 1988. Paleontologiya cheshukerylykh i voprosy filogenii otrayada Papilionida. In A.G. Ponomarenko (ed.), Melovoy Biotsenoticheskiy Krizis i Evolyutsiya Nasekomykh 16-69 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38446 A. Nel, X. Martínez-Delclòs, F. Escuillé and P. Brisac. 1994. Les Aeshnidae fossiles: Etat actuel des connaissances (Odonata, Anisoptera). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 194(2/3):143-186 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]
39932 F. E. Zeuner. 1939. Fossil Orthoptera Ensifera 1-321 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
36964 F. E. Zeuner. 1941. The fossil Acrididae (Orth. Salt. ) Part I, Catantopinae. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 8:510-522 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]
36944 F. E. Zeuner. 1943. The fossil Acrididae (Orth. Salt. ) Part IV Acrididae incertae sedis and Addendum to Catantopinae. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 11:359-383 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]