Moselund West, Silkeborg (Miocene of Denmark)

Where: Denmark (56.2° N, 9.4° E: paleocoordinates 56.2° N, 6.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• Lower Miocene or Upper Oligocene; flora termed Aquitanian by Mathiesen

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected in 1916

Primary reference: K. L. Henriksen. 1922. A new Tertiary dragon fly Oplonaeschna staurophlebioides n. sp. from Denmark. Meddelelser fra Dansk Geologisk Forening 6(9):3-5 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164572: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.12.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Odonata - Gomphaeschnidae
Oplonaeschna staurophlebioides n. sp. Henriksen 1922 true dragonfly