Also known as Messel Pit
Where: Hessen, Germany (49.9° N, 8.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 4.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Messel Formation, MP 11 (48.6 - 40.4 Ma)
• "lower Middle Eocene, lower-most Geiseltalian, Mammal Paleogene level 11... 2.57-3.09 m above local stratigraphic marker Alpha."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified, carbonaceous claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression, soft parts
Reposited in the SMF
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: T. Wappler. 2003. New fossil lace bugs (Heteroptera: Tingidae) from the Middle Eocene of the Grube Messel (Germany), with a catalog of fossil lace bugs. Zootaxa 374:1-26 [M. Clapham/J. Sandlin/J. Sandlin]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 125396: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jenna Sandlin on 09.03.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Exmesselensis disspinosus n. gen. n. sp.
Exmesselensis disspinosus n. gen. n. sp. Wappler 2003 lace bug SMF MEI 6301,6958, 7798, 7877, 7920, 8802
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