Where: Eifel, Germany (50.1° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 2.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 13 zone, Eifel Formation, MP 13 (48.6 - 40.4 Ma)

• The Eifel is the German part of the outcropping Variscan Basement west of the river Rhine and nort of the river Mosel.

•"MP 13... recently dated at 44.3 +/- 0.4 million years BP (Mertz et al. 2000)" (Franzen 2004)

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•Insects come mostly from teo horizons near marker horizon HT & KaLH

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crater lake; siltstone and shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Collected in 1997

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• Repository: Nautrhistorisches Museum Mainz

Primary reference: T. Wappler. 2003. Systematik, Phylogenie, Taphonomie und Paläoökologie der Insekten aus dem Mittel-Eozän des Eckfelder Maares, Vulkaneifel. Clausthaler Geowissenschaften 2:1-241 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135640: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 30.10.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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