Oeningen, upper quarry (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (47.7° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: MN 7 mammal zone, Upper Oehningen beds Member (Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation), Sarmatian (12.7 - 11.6 Ma)

• From the Kesselstein

Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified limestone

• "meromictic maar lake of approximately 1000 m in diameter and perhaps up to 100 m in depth" (Lutz, 1997). "Deposited in the Northern Alpine Foreland basin" (Uhl et al., 2006).
• "limestone" (Noble 1928)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: O. Heer. 1853. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Dritte Theil: Rhynchoten 1-138 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122867: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.01.2012, edited by Joanna Wolfe

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Potamidae
Potamon speciosus2
Potamon speciosus2 Von Meyer 1844 crab
Insecta
 Hemiptera - Cydnidae
"Cydnopsis sagittifera n. sp." = Cydnus sagittifer
"Cydnopsis sagittifera n. sp." = Cydnus sagittifer Heer 1853 burrowing bug
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Formica pulchella1, "Myrmica tertiaria" = Paraphaenogaster tertiaria1
Formica pulchella1 Heer 1849 ant
"Myrmica tertiaria" = Paraphaenogaster tertiaria1 Heer 1849 ant
1Heer 1867; 2Klaus and Gross 2010