Eckfeld Maar (NHMN 1997 collection): MP 13, Germany
collected 1997

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Blattodea - Mastotermitidae
Mastotermes krishnorum n. sp. Wappler and Engel 2006
Wappler and Engel 2006 22 specimens
(2 measurements)
Insecta - Blattodea - Blattellidae
Blattellidae informal indet. 1 Karny 1908
1 specimen
PE 1997/60
Blattellidae informal indet. 2 Karny 1908
1 specimen
PE1997/43
Insecta - Psocodea - Menoponidae
Megamenopon rasnitsyni n. gen., n. sp. Wappler et al. 2004
Wappler et al. 2004 1 specimen
NHMM PE1997/33.LS (1 measurement)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Coroebini informal indet. 2 Bedel 1921
1 specimen
corrected as Coraebini
PE1997/17 a+b
Coroebini informal indet. 4 Bedel 1921
1 specimen
corrected as Coraebini
PE1997/19 a+b
Insecta - Coleoptera - Cerambycidae
Cerambycidae informal indet. 2 (Latreille 1802)
1 specimen
Cerambicini
PE1997/45
Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Alticinae indet. (Newman 1834)
original and current combination Halticinae
Insecta - Coleoptera - Brentidae
? Trachelizini informal indet. 1 Lacordaire 1865
1 specimen
PE1997/64
Insecta - Coleoptera - Cleridae
Cleridae indet. (Latreille 1802)
1 specimen
original and current combination Clerii
PE1997/24
Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Staphylinidae indet. (Latreille 1802)
1 specimen
original and current combination Staphyliniae
PE1997/49
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae
Electrapis electrapoides (Lutz 1993)
1 specimen
recombined as Electrapis (Eckfeldapis) electrapoides
PE1997/20 LS
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Gesomyrmex germanicus n. sp. Dlussky et al. 2009
Dlussky et al. 2009 1 specimen
PE1997/29 (1 measurement)
Oecophylla eckfeldiana Dlussky et al. 2008
Dlussky et al. 2008 1 specimen
PE-1997/26
Insecta - Hemiptera
Membracoidea indet. Rafinesque 1815
1 specimen
PE1997/41 LS
Insecta - Hemiptera - Fulgoridae
Fulgoridae indet. Latreille 1807
2 specimens
PE1997/39 a+b; PE1997/47 a+b LS
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Eifel
Coordinates: 50.1° North, 6.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.0° North, 2.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Lutetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:MP 13 Zone: MP 13
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Eifel
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: The Eifel is the German part of the outcropping Variscan Basement west of the river Rhine and nort of the river Mosel.
"MP 13... recently dated at 44.3 +/- 0.4 million years BP (Mertz et al. 2000)" (Franzen 2004)

Insects come mostly from teo horizons near marker horizon HT & KaLH
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination siltstone
Secondary lithology:planar lamination "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: ...laminitic "oilshales" and siltstones... with frequent turbiditic intercalations... plant macrofossils are ... distributed throughout the sequence under investigation. ... coarse and robust plant debris such as wood fragments and large fruits/seeds is concentrated in the turbiditic layers. (Wilde and Frankenhauser 1998).
Environment:crater lake Tectonic setting:volcanic basin
Geology comments: "a small freshwater [crater] lake a few hundred meters in diameter" (Franzen 2004)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,adpression,original carbon
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1997
Collection method comments: Repository: Nautrhistorisches Museum Mainz
Metadata
Database number:135640
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-10-30 05:12:33 Last modified:2017-09-19 10:48:24
Access level:the public Released:2012-10-30 05:12:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
43376. T. Wappler. 2003. Systematik, Phylogenie, Taphonomie und Paläoökologie der Insekten aus dem Mittel-Eozän des Eckfelder Maares, Vulkaneifel. Clausthaler Geowissenschaften 2:1-241 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]

Secondary references:

37721 G. M. Dlussky, T. Wappler, and S. Wedmann. 2008. New midle Eocene formicid species from Germany and the evolution of weaver ants. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(4):615-626 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
44599 G. M. Dlussky, T. Wappler, and S. Wedmann. 2009. Fossil ants of the genus Gesomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Eocene of Europe and remarks on the evolution of arboreal ant communities. Zootaxa 2031:1-20 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
57309 T. Wappler, C. C. Labandeira, M. S. Engel, R. Zetter, and F. Grímsson. 2015. Specialized and generalized pollen-collection strategies in an ancient bee lineage. Current Biology 25:3092-3098 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]