Willershausen clay pit (Riechers collection) (Pliocene of Germany)

Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (51.8° N, 10.1° E: paleocoordinates 51.9° N, 9.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• MN16/17 land mammal ages

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; lithified marl

• Pond (about 200 m wide and 10 m deep) formed above collapse sinkhole (not volcanic, but subsidence mechanism is similar to volcanic calderas).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Collection of Riechers, Clausthal-Zellerfeld

Primary reference: E. Gersdorf. 1969. Käfer (Coleoptera) aus dem Jungtertiär Norddeutschlands. Geologisches Jahrbuch 87:295-332 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155692: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Oryctes nasicornis
Oryctes nasicornis Linnaeus 1758 European rhinoceros beetle
Riechers No. 613/614 (now GZG 15104)
 Coleoptera - Nitidulidae
Nitidulini indet.
Nitidulini indet. Latreille 1802 sap beetle
Riechers No. 602