PBDB Collection

Ejerslev Industrial Pit (Museum Mors collection) (Eocene of Denmark)

Also known as Island of Mors

Where: Denmark (56.9° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 5.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fur Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• "Fur Formation, latest Paleocene–earliest Eocene" but formation is early Eocene according to Lindow and Dyke 2006

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; concretionary, volcaniclastic, calcareous diatomite

• formation is ""deposited at water depths below the storm wave base, under anoxic or slightly oxic bottom conditions" according to Lindow and Dyke 2006

• formation is a "60 m thick marine diatomite interbedded with around 200 volcanic ash layers... Calcareous concretions... are the principal source of vertebrate fossils"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by H. Madsen

• Repository: Moler Museum

Primary reference: A. Freiwald and R. Willmann. 1992. Insekten aus der Fur-Formation von Dänemark (Moler, ob. Paleozän/unt. Eozän ?). 7. Ptychopteridae (Diptera). Meyniana 44:179-187 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67711: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.12.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham and Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

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Aves
Trogoniformes - Trogonidae	Septentrogon madseni n. gen. n. sp.⁷ Septentrogon madseni n. gen. n. sp.⁷ Kristoffersen 2002 trogon
Reptilia
Testudines - Cheloniidae	Tasbacka danica n. sp.⁵ Tasbacka danica n. sp.⁵ Karl and Madsen 2012 sea turtle MHM-K2, a complete juvenile individual
Malacostraca
Decapoda - Crangonidae	Morscrangon acutus³ Morscrangon acutus³ Garassino and Jakobsen 2005 shrimp Unnumbered specimen in Molermuseet
Insecta
Diptera - Ptychopteridae	Probittacomorpha christenseni n. gen. n. sp. Probittacomorpha christenseni n. gen. n. sp. Freiwald and Willmann 1992 phantom crane fly Moler Museum 6-2295
Hemiptera - Aphididae	Siphonophoroides madseni n. sp.⁴ Siphonophoroides madseni n. sp.⁴ Heie 1993 aphid Moler Museum 14M-5526
Hemiptera - Gerridae	Palaeogerris furensis¹, Palaeogerris mikkelseni¹ Palaeogerris furensis¹ Andersen 1998 water strider Moler Museum I-515 (col. Mikkelsen) Palaeogerris mikkelseni¹ Andersen 1998 water strider MM I-298, I-513
Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae	Epitheronia stigmatica⁶ Epitheronia stigmatica⁶ Henriksen 1922 ichneumon wasp MOL-MM-3141
Neuroptera - Chrysopidae	Stephenbrooksia multifurcata n. gen. n. sp.⁸ Stephenbrooksia multifurcata n. gen. n. sp.⁸ Willmann 1993 green lacewing Madsen 4-2000
Odonata -	Furagrion jutlandicus² Furagrion jutlandicus² Henriksen 1922 damselfly MM-4785 (previously MHM-5242A), 14M-2765

¹Andersen 1998; ²Archibald et al. 2023; ³Garassino and Jakobsen 2005; ⁴Heie 1993; ⁵Karl and Madsen 2012; ⁶Klopfstein 2022; ⁷Kristoffersen 2002; ⁸Willmann 1993