Island of Fur (Witteck 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: private collection of Karsten and Solveig Witteck (Oststeinbek), later at Fur Museum and Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Mecklenburg, Natureum am Schloss Ludwigslust.

Primary reference: W. Zessin. 2011. Neue Insekten aus dem Moler (Paläozän/Eozän) von Dänemark Teil 1 (Odonata: Epallagidae, Megapodagrioniidae). Virgo, Mitteilungsblatt des Entomologischen Vereins Mecklenburg 14:64-73 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157040: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.06.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Odonata - Libellulidae
Molertrum eburneum n. gen. n. sp.2
Molertrum eburneum n. gen. n. sp.2 Zessin 2019 common skimmer
Nr. 3402
 Odonata - Euphaeidae
Solveigia wittecki n. gen. n. sp.
Solveigia wittecki n. gen. n. sp. Zessin 2011 damselfly
Nr. 1945
 Orthoptera - Eumastacidae
Eozaenhuepfer erteboellei2 Zessin 2017 monkey grasshopper
 Orthoptera - Tetrigidae
Eozaentetrix furi n. sp.1, Eozaentetrix wittecki n. gen. n. sp.1
Eozaentetrix furi n. sp.1 Zessin 2017 pygmy grasshopper
Nr. 2452
Eozaentetrix wittecki n. gen. n. sp.1 Zessin 2017 pygmy grasshopper
Nr. 2444