Ejerslev, Mors (Fur Museum collection) (Eocene of Denmark)

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Earliest Early Eocene "An Early Eocene age of 54.04 ± 0.14 Ma has been determined for layer +19 and 54.52 ± 0.05 Ma for layer -17 by the Ar40–Ar39 method (Chambers et al. 2003).

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified diatomite and volcaniclastic

• The depositional environment was in the Palaeocene–Eocene precursor of the North Sea, which was an almost or entirely enclosed inland body, open to the Atlantic at least at times (Bonde 1997).
• "The Danish insects discussed here are from the marine Fur Formation, about 50-60 m of diatomite and tephra layers, which, with the Ølst Formation, constitute the Mo-clay in the northern Jutland region" Archibald & Makarkin, 2006

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Fur Museum, Nederby

Primary reference: N. Meier, A. Wacker, and S. Klopfstein. 2022. New fossil wasp species from the earliest Eocene Fur Formation has its closest relatives in late Eocene ambers (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pherhombinae). Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 1(8427) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224404: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.02.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Odonata -
Furagrion jutlandicus1
Furagrion jutlandicus1 Henriksen 1922 damselfly
FUM-N 16192
 Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae
Pherhombus parvulus n. sp., Epitheronia stigmatica2, ? Lathrolestes zlatorog n. sp.3
Pherhombus parvulus n. sp. Meier et al. 2022 ichneumon wasp
Fur Museum 10652
Epitheronia stigmatica2 Henriksen 1922 ichneumon wasp
FUR-16635
? Lathrolestes zlatorog n. sp.3 Viertler et al. 2022 ichneumon wasp
FUR 10651
1Archibald et al. 2023; 2Klopfstein 2022; 3Viertler et al. 2022