Oeningen (Rheinau Monastery collection): Sarmatian, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Baden-Württemberg |
| Coordinates: | 47.7° North, 8.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 47.9° North, 7.8° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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: | 12.80000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Upper Freshwater-Molasse | Member: | Upper Oehningen beds |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" | ||
| 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: | mold/impression,adpression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 117260 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2011-09-18 12:21:53 | Last modified: | 2024-02-03 10:20:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-09-18 12:21:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
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] |