Grube Messel Pit, grid square E9, at alpha marker: MP 11, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Coleoptera
- Elateridae
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Macropunctum messelensis
Tröster 1991
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| corrected as Macropunctum messelense | ||||||||||
| SMF MeI 2487, 2490 (4 measurements) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Hessen |
| Coordinates: | 49.9° North, 8.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.9° North, 4.8° 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 11 | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Messel |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination lithified claystone | ||
| Lithology description: "The fossils are embedded in darkly coloured, finely laminated claystone sediments rich in organic substances (‘oil shale’), which were deposited in a meromictic lake (e.g. Goth, 1990)." | |||
| Environment: | crater lake | Tectonic setting: | volcanic basin |
| Geology comments: "A drilling project conducted in 2001 showed that the former Lake Messel was a maar lake, which is a small deep lake that had its origin in an explosive volcanic eruption. The former lake basin had an original diameter of about 1.5 km, and a depth of about 300–400 m (Harms, 2002; Felder & Harms, 2004)." | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,adpression,soft parts |
| Lagerst�tten type: | conservation |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | SMF |
| Collection method comments: Repository: now FIS, Forschungsstation Grube Messel | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 162182 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2014-09-19 13:50:19 | Last modified: | 2014-09-19 13:50:19 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-09-19 13:50:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 52808. | G. Tröster. 1991. Eine neue Gattung der Elateridae (Insecta: Coleoptera) Macropunctum gen. n. aus der Messel-Formation des unteren Mittel-Eozän der Fundstätte Messel. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 139:99-117 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |