Oeningen (unspecified collection): Sarmatian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Hemiptera
Heer 1853 2 specimens
Insecta - Hemiptera - Cydnidae
Heer 1853 1 specimen
Insecta - Orthoptera - Acrididae
Zeuner 1943
Zeuner 1941
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
8 specimens
(2 measurements)
8 specimens
1 specimen
2 specimens
(1 measurement)
11 specimens
Includes four tentative (2 measurements)
8 specimens
(1 measurement)
5 specimens
(2 measurements)
9 specimens
(2 measurements)
29 specimens
20 incomplete and tentative (2 measurements)
Insecta - Trichoptera
1 specimen
larva
Insecta - Coleoptera - Attelabidae
Heer 1847 1 specimen
(1 measurement)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Heer 1847 1 specimen
questionably from Oeningen (2 measurements)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Heer 1847 1 specimen
Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae
Heer 1847 1 specimen
(1 measurement)
Insecta - Odonata - Lestidae
1 specimen
(1 measurement)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 47.7° North, 8.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.5° North, 10.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Serravallian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Sarmatian Mammal zone:  MN 7
Age range of interval: 12.8 - 11.63 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Upper Freshwater-Molasse Member:Upper Oehningen beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: "limestone" (Noble 1928)
Environment:crater lake Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Geology comments: "meromictic maar lake of approximately 1000 m in diameter and perhaps up to 100 m in depth" (Lutz, 1997). "Deposited in the Northern Alpine Foreland basin" (Uhl et al., 2006).
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:113695
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2011-08-04 09:34:04 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-04 09:34:04
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
37344. O. Heer. 1849. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Zweiter Theil: Henschrecken, Florfliegen, Aderflügler, Schmetterlinge und Fliegen 1-264 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

38897 O. Heer. 1847. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Erster Theil: Käfer 1-229 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
39159 O. Heer. 1853. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Dritte Theil: Rhynchoten 1-138 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Uhen]
47508 O. Heer. 1864. Die Urwelt der Schweiz 1-622 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38709 O. Heer. 1867. Fossile Hymenopteren aus Oeningen und Radoboj. Neue Denkschriften der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 22:1-42 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
36994 A. Nel and J. C. Paicheler. 1994. Les Lestoidea (Odonata, Zygoptera) fossiles: Un inventaire critique. Annales de Paléontologie 80(1):1-59 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/J. Karr]
36964 F. E. Zeuner. 1941. The fossil Acrididae (Orth. Salt. ) Part I, Catantopinae. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 8:510-522 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]
36944 F. E. Zeuner. 1943. The fossil Acrididae (Orth. Salt. ) Part IV Acrididae incertae sedis and Addendum to Catantopinae. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 11:359-383 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]
5180ETE 892F. E. Zeuner and F. J. Manning. 1976. A monograph on fossil bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 27(3):149-268 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]