Langenberg, near Seinstedt (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.1° N, 10.7° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 10.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shipingia gerbachmanni other zone, Sevatian (212.0 - 205.6 Ma)

• Main fossil horizon (called the “insect bed”) contains the Upper Sevatian conchostracans Shipingia gerbachmanni HAUSCHKE & KOZUR 2011 and Shipingia etzoldi HAUSCHKE & KOZUR 2011.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, gray claystone

• "Insect bed" of grey claystone as an intercalation of fine-grained sand- and siltstones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Gregor Barth in 2001-2011

• Specimens at Institut für Geowissenschaften, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Primary reference: G. Barth, J. Ansorge, and C. Brauckmann. 2011. First record of the genus Ipsvicia (Hemiptera: Ipsviciidae) outside Gondwana – an Australian genus from the Upper Triassic of Germany. Polish Journal of Entomology 80:645-657 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123417: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Dicondylia -
Italophlebia baueri n. sp. Barth et al. 2013 winged insect
MLU.Sei2010.253
 Mecoptera - Mesopsychidae
Mesotanyderus sp. Riek 1955 scorpionfly
 Mecoptera - Pseudopolycentropodidae
Pseudopolycentropus sp. Handlirsch 1906 scorpionfly
 Hymenoptera - Sepulcidae
Sepulenia sp. Rasnitsyn 1968 stem sawfly
 Hemiptera - Ipsviciidae
"Ipsvicia langenbergensis n. sp." = Ipsviciopsis langenbergensis
"Ipsvicia langenbergensis n. sp." = Ipsviciopsis langenbergensis Barth et al. 2011 true bug
MLU.Sei2010.182
 Orthoptera - Elcanidae
Archelcana sp. Sharov 1968 grasshopper