Where: Hungary (47.5° N, 19.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 17.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kiscell Clay Formation, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)
• Kiscell clay spans late Rupelian-early Chattian interval.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, bioturbated, gray, calcareous claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: Repository: Hungarian Natural Museum
Primary reference: A. Pongrácz. 1928. Die fossilen Insekten von Ungarn, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Entwicklung der europäischen Insekten-fauna. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 25:91-194 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 156757: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.05.2014, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Calappilia tridentata Beurlen 1939 box crab | |
Glyphithyreus sulcatus Berulen 1939 crab | |
Lyreidus hungaricus Beurlen 1939 crab | |
Lepidophthalmus crateriferus Lorenthey 1926 decapod | |
Ctenocheles rupeliensis Beurlen 1939 decapod | |
Insecta | |
? Eurygaster sp. Laporte 1833 metallic shield bug |