Island of Fur (Zoologisk Museum Copenhagen coll) (Eocene of Denmark)

Where: Denmark (56.8° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 5.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Diatom-earth bed

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, diatomaceous mudstone

• 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).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Zoologisk Museum, Copenhagen

Primary reference: R. De Jong. 2016. Reconstructing a 55-million-year-old butterfly (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). European Journal of Entomology 113:423-428 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181387: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.09.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Lepidoptera - Hesperiidae
Protocoeliades kristenseni n. gen. n. sp.
Protocoeliades kristenseni n. gen. n. sp. De Jong 2016 skipper
ZMUC Danekrae DK 136