Eckfeld Maar (NHMN 1990 collection) (Eocene of Germany)

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)

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crater lake; siltstone and shale

• "a small freshwater [crater] lake a few hundred meters in diameter" (Franzen 2004)
• ...laminitic "oilshales" and siltstones... with frequent turbiditic intercalations... plant macrofossils are ... distributed throughout the sequence under investigation. ... coarse and robust plant debris such as wood fragments and large fruits/seeds is concentrated in the turbiditic layers. (Wilde and Frankenhauser 1998).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Collected in 1990

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 135641: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 30.10.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Odonata - Gomphaeschnidae
Gomphaeschnidae indet. Tillyard and Fraser 1940 true dragonfly
NHMM PE1990/183 LS, PE1990/1008 ab LS
 Coleoptera - Dytiscidae
? Dytiscidae indet. Leach 1815 predaceous diving beetle
PE1990/445
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Carabidae "indet. 2" Latreille 1802 ground beetle
PE1990/660, 361
 Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Buprestinae "indet. 2", Buprestinae "indet. 3", Buprestis sp., "Coroebini "indet. 2"" = Coraebini, "Coroebini "indet. 4"" = Coraebini
Buprestinae "indet. 2" Leach 1815 jewel beetle
PE1990/83
Buprestinae "indet. 3" Leach 1815 jewel beetle
PE1990/912
Buprestis sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel beetle
PE1990/802
"Coroebini "indet. 2"" = Coraebini Bedel 1921 jewel beetle
PE1990/1001, 1029, 767
"Coroebini "indet. 4"" = Coraebini Bedel 1921 jewel beetle
PE1990/766
 Coleoptera - Throscidae
Throscidae indet. Laporte 1840 beetle
PE1990/1035
 Coleoptera - Lycidae
Lycidae indet. Laporte 1836 net-winged beetle
PE1990/1030
 Coleoptera - Elateridae
Macropunctum spp.1 Tröster 1991 click beetle
PE 1990/145, 680 ("eocaenicum" group); 11, 38, 260, 409, 487, 507, 565, 679, 774, 879, 984 ("messelensis group"); 262 ("meunieri group")
Macropunctum eckfeldi n. sp.1 Tröster 1992 click beetle
PE 1990/974
 Coleoptera - Cerambycidae
Cerambycidae "indet. 1" Latreille 1802 longhorned beetle
PE1990/619
Cerambycidae indet. Latreille 1802 longhorned beetle
PE1990/7
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Eosagra sp. Haupt 1950 frog-legged beetle
PE1990/884
Alticinae indet. Newman 1834 flea beetle
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Curculionini indet. Latreille 1802 snout beetle
PE1990/1031, 1021, 945
 Coleoptera - Brentidae
? Trachelizini "indet. 1" Lacordaire 1865 weevil
PE1990/103
Apioninae "indet. 4" Schoenherr 1823 weevil
 Coleoptera -
Scarabaeoidea indet. Latreille 1802 scarab beetle
PE1990/1025 a+B
 Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Rutelinae indet. MacLeay 1819 scarab beetle
PE1990/54, 770
Aclopinae indet. Blanchard 1850 scarab beetle
PE1990/960
 Coleoptera - Geotrupidae
Geotrupidae indet. Latreille 1802 earth-boring dung beetle
PE1990/1016, 1003
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Staphylinidae indet. Latreille 1802 rove beetle
PE1990/772
 Coleoptera - Dermestidae
? Attagenus sp. Latreille 1802 skin beetle
PE1990/961
 Hymenoptera - Megachilidae
Megachilidae indet. Latreille 1802 mason bee
PE1990/527
 Hymenoptera - Bethylidae
cf. Bethylidae indet. Forster 1856 flat wasp
PE1990/2
 Hemiptera - Gerridae
Lutetiabates eckfeldensis n. gen. n. sp. Wappler and Andersen 2004 water strider
PE1990/381, 472
 Hemiptera - Lygaeidae
Lygaeidae "indet. 1" Schilling 1829 milkweed bug
PE1990/87, PE1990/140, PE1990/691
 Hemiptera - Cydnidae
Cydnidae "indet. 1" Billberg 1820 burrowing bug
PE1990/149 a+b LS
Cydnidae "indet. 2" Billberg 1820 burrowing bug
PE1990/780
 Hemiptera - Pentatomidae
Pentatomidae "indet. 1" Leach 1815 stink bug
PE1990/693 LS
Pentatomidae "indet. 2" Leach 1815 stink bug
PE1990/695, 971, 972, 1023
 Hemiptera - Aradidae
Mezira eckfeldensis n. sp.2 Wappler and Heiss 2006 flat bug
PE1990/4 LS
 Blattodea - Blattidae
Blattidae indet. Latreille 1810 cockroach
PE1990/1019, PE1990/448
 Dicondylia -
Plecoptera indet. Burmeister 1839 stonefly
PE1990/783 ab LS