Oeningen (unspecified collection) (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)

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. 1849. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Zweiter Theil: Henschrecken, Florfliegen, Aderflügler, Schmetterlinge und Fliegen 1-264 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113695: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 04.08.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Odonata - Lestidae
"Agrion (Lestes) peisinoe n. sp." = Lestes peisinoe, "Agrion (Lestes) ligea n. sp." = Lestes ligea
"Agrion (Lestes) peisinoe n. sp." = Lestes peisinoe Heer 1849 spread-winged damselfly
"Agrion (Lestes) ligea n. sp." = Lestes ligea Heer 1849 spread-winged damselfly
 Coleoptera - Cantharidae
"Telephorus tertiarius" = Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) tertiaria1
"Telephorus tertiarius" = Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) tertiaria1 Heer 1847 soldier beetle
ssp. oeningensis
 Coleoptera - Attelabidae
"Rhynchites silenus n. sp." = Paleauletobius silenus1
"Rhynchites silenus n. sp." = Paleauletobius silenus1 Heer 1847 leaf rolling weevil
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Cleonus leucosiae n. sp.1 Heer 1847 snout beetle
questionably from Oeningen
 Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Melolonthites obsoleta n. sp.1 Heer 1847 scarab beetle
 Trichoptera -
""Phryganea" antiqua n. sp." = Terrindusia antiqua
""Phryganea" antiqua n. sp." = Terrindusia antiqua Heer 1849 caddisfly
larva
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Formica primitiva n. sp., Formica primordialis n. sp., Formica lavateri n. sp., Formica seuberti n. sp., Formica immersa n. sp., "Myrmica rugiceps n. sp." = Carebara rugiceps, "Myrmica tertiaria" = Paraphaenogaster tertiaria, Myrmica macrocephala n. sp., Myrmica molassica n. sp.
Formica primitiva n. sp. Heer 1849 ant
Formica primordialis n. sp. Heer 1849 ant
Includes four tentative
Formica lavateri n. sp. Heer 1849 ant
Formica seuberti n. sp. Heer 1849 ant
20 incomplete and tentative
Formica immersa n. sp. Heer 1849 ant
"Myrmica rugiceps n. sp." = Carebara rugiceps Heer 1849 ant
"Myrmica tertiaria" = Paraphaenogaster tertiaria Heer 1849 ant
ssp. oeningensis
Myrmica macrocephala n. sp. Heer 1849 ant
Myrmica molassica n. sp. Heer 1849 ant
 Hemiptera -
Nepa atavina n. sp.2
Nepa atavina n. sp.2 Heer 1853 true bug
 Hemiptera - Cydnidae
"Cydnopsis tertiaria" = Cydnus tertiarius2
"Cydnopsis tertiaria" = Cydnus tertiarius2 Heer 1853 burrowing bug
 Orthoptera - Acrididae
Acrididae indet.4, "Scyllina oeningensis" = Oedipoda oeningensis3
Acrididae indet.4 Latreille 1802 short-horned grasshopper
"Scyllina oeningensis" = Oedipoda oeningensis3 Heer 1849 short-horned grasshopper