Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.6° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 48.8° N, 8.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Randeck Maar Formation, MN 5 (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)
• Early/Middle Miocene (Burdigalian, Karpatian, MN 5, ca. 16–18 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified, carbonaceous lime mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the SMNS
• Repository: private collection of Karl Schempp (possibly now at SMNS)
Primary reference: L. Armbruster. 1938. Versteinerte Honigbienen aus dem obermiocänen Randecker Maar. Archiv für Bienenkunde 19:97-133 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 127613: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Amy Delelli on 19.05.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)