Oeningen (von Fürstenberg collection): Sarmatian, Germany
collected by Prince Karl Egon zu Furstenberg

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Heer 1849 1 specimen
worker (2 measurements)
Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae
Heer 1849 1 specimen
Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
1 specimen
Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
1 specimen
Insecta - Coleoptera - Anthribidae
2 specimens
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 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: 12.8 - 11.63 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
Collectors:Prince Karl Egon zu Furstenberg
Metadata
Database number:117338
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2011-09-19 03:24:12 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-19 03:24:12
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
38897. O. Heer. 1847. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Erster Theil: Käfer 1-229 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

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]