Schossnitz (Sosnica) (Miocene of Poland)

Where: Poland (51.0° N, 16.8° E: paleocoordinates 51.3° N, 16.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified claystone

• Warsaw basin in Central European Basin System, a major intracratonic basin system.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by H.R. Goeppert

• Repository: possibly some or all at Museum of Natural History at University of Wrocław.

Primary reference: H. R. Goeppert. 1855. Die Tertiäre Flora von Schossnitz in Schlesien 1-52 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138936: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Odonata - Libellulidae
Libellula sieboldiana n. sp., Libellula kieseli n. sp., Libellula pannewitziana n. sp.
Libellula sieboldiana n. sp. Goeppert 1855 common skimmer
Libellula kieseli n. sp. Assmann 1870 common skimmer
Libellula pannewitziana n. sp. Goeppert 1855 common skimmer
 Blattodea - Mastotermitidae
"Termopsis heerii n. sp." = Mastotermes heerii
"Termopsis heerii n. sp." = Mastotermes heerii Goeppert 1855 termite
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Lasius oblongus n. sp., Lonchomyrmex nigritus n. sp., "Pheidologeton schossnicensis n. sp." = Carebara schossnicensis
Lasius oblongus n. sp. Assmann 1870 ant
Lonchomyrmex nigritus n. sp. Assmann 1870 ant
"Pheidologeton schossnicensis n. sp." = Carebara schossnicensis Assmann 1870 ant
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Curculionites silesiacus n. sp.
Curculionites silesiacus n. sp. Assmann 1870 snout beetle
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Donacia letzneri n. sp., Gonioctena primordialis n. sp.
Donacia letzneri n. sp. Assmann 1870 leaf beetle
Gonioctena primordialis n. sp. Assmann 1870 leaf beetle