Halstatt, grave number 783 (Holocene of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.6° N, 13.7° E: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 13.7° E)

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• The grave was 60 cm deep in the gravel and dated to 600-500 BC

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; ironstone

• The "lithology" is rusted spearhead and dagger

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by G. Ramsauer in 1860; reposited in the NHMW

Primary reference: M. Beier. 1955. Insektenreste aus der Hallstattzeit. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 164:747-749 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 139947: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Fanniidae
Fannia sp. Robineau-Desvoidy 1830 fly
NHMW Inv. Nr. 26016