Eckfeld Maar (NHMN 1991 collection): MP 13, Germany
collected 1991
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Buprestidae
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Buprestinae informal indet. 1
Leach 1815
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PE1991/4 | ||||||||||
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Coroebini informal indet. 3
Bedel 1921
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| corrected as Coraebini | ||||||||||
| PE1991/6 | ||||||||||
| 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: | 1991 |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Nautrhistorisches Museum Mainz | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 135646 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | J. Karr |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2012-10-30 07:42:17 | Last modified: | 2017-09-19 10:49:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-10-30 07:42:17 |
| 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] |