Hanklit, Mors (Ansorge collection): Ypresian, Denmark

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Odonata
1 specimen
MOA 769 (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Denmark
Coordinates: 56.9° North, 8.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.7° North, 15.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Ypresian
Age range of interval: 56 - 48.07 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ølst
Stratigraphy comments: Stolle Klint clay, basal part of Ølst Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,gray lithified claystone
Environment:offshore ramp Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: private collection of Jorg Ansorge (Horst), later at Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Mecklenburg, Natureum am Schloss Ludwigslust und Geologisches Museum der Universität Kopenhagen, Dänemark.
Metadata
Database number:157038
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2014-06-04 21:58:50 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2014-06-04 21:58:50
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
51479. W. Zessin. 2011. Neue Insekten aus dem Moler (Paläozän/Eozän) von Dänemark Teil 1 (Odonata: Epallagidae, Megapodagrioniidae). Virgo, Mitteilungsblatt des Entomologischen Vereins Mecklenburg 14:64-73 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

84802 S. B. Archibald, J. L. Ware, J. A. Rasmussen, R. L. Sylvestersen, K. Olsen and T. J. Simonsen. 2023. The damselfly genus Furagrion Petrulevičius et al. (Odonata, Zygoptera) from the early Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark and the dysagrionoid grade. Zootaxa 5278:289-317 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]