Schandelah, near Braunschweig (Zessin coll.): Early/Lower Toarcian, Germany
collected by Zessin

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Ephialtitidae
Sippelipterus liasinus n. gen., n. sp. Zessin 1985
Zessin 1985 1 specimen
recombined as Symphytopterus liasinus
LS 18/2-I (1 measurement)
Insecta - Orthoptera - Locustopsidae
Locustopsis procera Zessin 1983
Zessin 1988 1 specimen
recombined as Plesioschwinzia procera
LS 49/1-1,2-1
Locustopsis kruegeri n. sp. Zessin 1983
Zessin 1983 2 specimens
recombined as Plesioschwinzia kruegeri
LS 29/1; LS 48/2 in Zessin 1988 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Orthoptera - Elcanidae
Elcana minima Handlirsch 1906
1 specimen
recombined as Panorpidium minima
LS 142/1/2
Elcana geinitzi (Heer 1880)
1 specimen
recombined as Panorpidium geinitzi
LS 46
Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae
Praemacrochile decipiens (Bode 1953)
Ansorge and Krzemiński 2002 1 specimen
LS 18/1
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Niedersachsen County:Wolfenbüttel
Coordinates: 52.3° North, 10.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.5° North, 17.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Toarcian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Early/Lower Toarcian Ammonoid zone:
Age range of interval:184.20000 - 182.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Posidonia Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "Soft, fine splitting marl slate"
Environment:offshore indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Zessin
Metadata
Database number:114995
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2011-08-26 14:38:33 Last modified:2014-07-17 16:41:14
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-26 14:38:33
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:

51695 J. Ansorge and W. Krzemiński. 2002. Lower Jurassic tanyderids (Diptera: Tanyderidae) from Germany. Studia Dipterologica 9:21-29 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
52464 W. Zessin. 1983. Locustopsis kruegeri n. sp. (Orthopteroida, Caelifera) aus dem oberen Lias von Schandelah bei Braunschweig (BRD). Zeitschrift für Geologische Wissenschaften 11:905-910 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
39399 W. Zessin. 1985. Neue oberliassische Apocrita und die Phylogenie der Hymenoptera. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 32(1-3):129-142 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]
52427 W. Zessin. 1988. Neue Saltatoria (Insecta) aus dem Oberlias Mitteleuropas. Freiberger Forschungshefte C 419:107-121 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]