Oeningen, lower quarry (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Baden-WĆ¼rttemberg, Germany (47.7° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN 7 mammal zone, Upper Oehningen beds Member (Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation), Sarmatian (12.7 - 11.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified limestone

• "meromictic maar lake of approximately 1000 m in diameter and perhaps up to 100 m in depth" (Lutz, 1997). "Deposited in the Northern Alpine Foreland basin" (Uhl et al., 2006).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Primary reference: O. Heer. 1853. Die Insektenfauna der TertiƤrgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Dritte Theil: Rhynchoten 1-138 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122866: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.01.2012, edited by Joanna Wolfe

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hemiptera - Cicadellidae
Ledophora producta n. gen. n. sp.
Ledophora producta n. gen. n. sp. Heer 1853 leafhopper
 Hemiptera - Cercopidae
Cicadellites oblongus n. sp. Heer 1853 froghopper
 Hemiptera - Rhyparochromidae
Pachymerus morio n. sp. Heer 1853 seed bug
 Hemiptera - Lygaeidae
Lygaeites acutus n. sp. Heer 1853 milkweed bug
Lygaeus dasypus n. sp. Heer 1853 milkweed bug
 Hemiptera - Cydnidae
Cydnopsis haidingeri Heer 1853 burrowing bug
 Hemiptera - Coreidae
Syromastes coloratus Heer 1853 leaf-footed bug
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Formica demersa2 Heer 1849 ant
Formica primitiva2 Heer 1849 ant
Poneropsis escheri n. sp.2 Heer 1867 ant
"Myrmica tertiaria" = Paraphaenogaster tertiaria2 Heer 1849 ant
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Cassida blancheti1 Heer 1856 tortoise beetle
M. Polyt. collection
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Potamidae
Potamon speciosus3 Von Meyer 1844 crab