Grimmen (Krempien collection): Early/Lower Toarcian, Germany
collected by Krempien

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Orthoptera - Locustopsidae
Locustopsis gyra Zessin 1983
Zessin 1988 1 specimen
LiG 158/2 (1 measurement)
Locustopsis kruegeri Zessin 1983
Zessin 1988 1 specimen
recombined as Plesioschwinzia kruegeri
LiG 137/1
Insecta - Orthoptera - Elcanidae
Elcana minima Handlirsch 1906
1 specimen
recombined as Panorpidium minima
LiG 170/1/2
Elcana media Handlirsch 1906
4 specimens
recombined as Panorpidium media
LiG 167/1/2, 172/1/2, 183/1/2, 212/1/2
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Mecklenburg-Vorpommern County:Röstock
Coordinates: 54.1° North, 13.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.7° North, 18.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Altitude:8 meters
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Toarcian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Early/Lower Toarcian Zone: Dactylioceras tenuicostatum
Age range of interval:184.20000 - 182.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: unnamed "bituminous shale bed" equivalent to Posidonian Shale (Posidonienschiefer); Lias epsilon level = lowest Toarcian; also lower part of Harpoceras falcifer Zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified carbonaceous "shale"
Lithology description: bituminous shale ("bituminösen Schiefer")
Environment:offshore indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression,concretion
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Krempien
Metadata
Database number:114994
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2011-08-26 14:35:47 Last modified:2014-08-26 15:34:56
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-26 14:35:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35779. W. Zessin. 1987. Variabilität, Merkmalswandel und Phylogenie der Elcanidae im Jungpaläozoikum und Mesozoikum und die Phylogenie der Ensifera. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 34(1-3):1-76 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/J. Karr]

Secondary references:

52427 W. Zessin. 1988. Neue Saltatoria (Insecta) aus dem Oberlias Mitteleuropas. Freiberger Forschungshefte C 419:107-121 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]