Eckfeld Maar (NHMN 1993 collection): MP 13, Germany
collected 1993
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Hemiptera
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Cercopoidea informal indet. 2
Leach 1815
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1993/284 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Hemiptera
- Gerridae
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Gerris sp.
Fabricius 1794
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Wappler and Andersen 2004 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| PE 1993/216a+b-LS | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Hemiptera
- Lygaeidae
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Lygaeidae informal indet. 1
Schilling 1829
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1993/286 a+b LS | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Hemiptera
- Ricaniidae
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Ricaniidae informal indet. 1
(Amyot and Audinet-Serville 1843)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1993/218 a+b LS | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Dermaptera
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Forficulina indet.
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| PE1993/236 a+b LS, PE1993/219 a+b LS | ||||||||||
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= Neodermaptera informal indet. 1
Engel 2003
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Wappler et al. 2005 | |||||||||
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Insecta
- Blattodea
- Blattidae
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Blattidae indet.
Latreille 1810
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1993/116 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Curculionidae
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Curculionini indet.
Latreille 1802
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1993/48 | ||||||||||
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cf. Curculio sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1993/155 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Cerambycidae
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Cerambycidae informal indet. 2
(Latreille 1802)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| Cerambicini | ||||||||||
| PE1993/279, 280 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Chrysomelidae
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Hispinae indet.
Gyllenhal 1813
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| synonym of Cassidinae | ||||||||||
| PE1993/112 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Coccinellidae
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Coccinellidae indet.
Latreille 1807
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1993/107 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Buprestidae
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Julodinae indet.
Lacordaire 1857
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1993/167 a+b | ||||||||||
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Coroebini informal indet. 4
Bedel 1921
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| corrected as Coraebini | ||||||||||
| PE1993/188 | ||||||||||
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? Agrilini informal indet. 2
Laporte 1835
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1993/137 a+b | ||||||||||
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Buprestinae informal indet. 1
Leach 1815
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1993/288 | ||||||||||
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Buprestinae informal indet. 2
Leach 1815
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1993/135 | ||||||||||
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Buprestis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1993/89 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Elateridae
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Lanelater nicoleae
Wappler 2003
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1993/256 | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Scarabaeidae
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Melolonthinae indet.
(Leach 1819)
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Lucanidae
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Lucanidae indet.
(Latreille 1804)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1993/276 a+b | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Eifel | County: | Eckfeld |
| 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: | 1993 |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Nautrhistorisches Museum Mainz | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 135642 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | J. Karr, M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2012-10-30 05:16:47 | Last modified: | 2017-09-19 10:48:57 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-10-30 05:16:47 |
| 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:
| 44718 | T. Wappler and N. M. Andersen. 2004. Fossil water striders from the Middle Eocene fossil sites of Eckfeld and Messel, Germany (Hemiptera, Gerromorpha). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 78:41-52 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
| 50146 | T. Wappler, M. S. Engel, and F. Haas. 2005. The earwigs (Dermaptera: Forficulidae) from the middle Eocene Eckfeld maar, Germany. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 74:227-250 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |