Naumburg am Bober (Nowogrod Bobrzanski) (Miocene of Poland)

Where: Poland (51.8° N, 15.2° E: paleocoordinates 52.1° N, 14.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Age based on assumption that insect comes from the plant fossil locality, which is Late Miocene according to Nie et al. (2010).

• 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 Busch

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

Primary reference: A. Assmann. 1870. Beiträge zur Insekten-Fauna der Vorwelt. II. Beitrag. Fossile Insekten aus der tertiären (oligocenen) Braunkohle von Naumburg am Bober. Zeitschrift für Entomologie 1:59-62 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164951: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Anthaxia buschi n. sp., "Dicerca reticulata n. sp." = Dicerca reticulatoides
Anthaxia buschi n. sp. Assmann 1870 jewel beetle
"Dicerca reticulata n. sp." = Dicerca reticulatoides Bellamy 2003 jewel beetle