Mors (Rettig collection) (Eocene of Denmark)

Where: Denmark (56.9° N, 8.8° E: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 5.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fur Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified diatomite and volcaniclastic

• The depositional environment was in the Palaeocene–Eocene precursor of the North Sea, which was an almost or entirely enclosed inland body, open to the Atlantic at least at times (Bonde 1997).
• "The Danish insects discussed here are from the marine Fur Formation, about 50-60 m of diatomite and tephra layers, which, with the Ølst Formation, constitute the Mo-clay in the northern Jutland region" Archibald & Makarkin, 2006

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repositoy: Natural History Museum of Denmark (NHMD)

Primary reference: A. A. Legalov, D. V. Vasilenko, and E. E. Perkovsky. 2024. A new species of the genus Cephalallus Sharp, 1905 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from the Ypresian of Denmark. Ecologica Montenegrina 71:261-268 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 233884: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.03.2024

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Cerambycidae
Cephalallus vitalii n. sp.
Cephalallus vitalii n. sp. Legalov et al. 2024 longhorned beetle
MGUH 3420 (accession numbers GM 2024.1a, 1b)