Dudweiler (Bergschule Saarbrucken coll) (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Saarland, Germany (49.3° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 15.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Saarbrucker layer Formation, Westphalian C (314.6 - 309.8 Ma)

• Untere Saarbrücker Schichten. Mittleres Obercarbon.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• Saar-Nahe basin; Half-graben generated by extension on South Hunsruck bounding fault, but with some component of dextral strike-slip transtension in an intermontane setting following the Variscan orogeny

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Bergschule Saarbrucken

Primary reference: M. Kliver. 1883. Ueber einige neue Blattinarien- zwei Dictyoneura- und zwei Arthropleura-Arten aus der Saarbrücker Steinkohlenformation. Palaeontographica 29:249-267 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124244: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 09.02.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Myriapoda
 Arthropleurida - Arthropleuridae
Arthropleura armata1
Arthropleura armata1 Jordan 1854 millipede
Insecta
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
"Anthracoblattina incerta n. sp." = Archimylacridae incerta, "Anthracoblattina camerata n. sp." = Muelleroblatta camerata
"Anthracoblattina incerta n. sp." = Archimylacridae incerta Kliver 1883 cockroach
"Anthracoblattina camerata n. sp." = Muelleroblatta camerata Kliver 1883 cockroach
Bergschule Sarbrucken 7d Aa 35; from Richardschacht
 Mixotermitoidea - Kliveriidae
"Termes incertus n. sp." = Kliveria incerta2
"Termes incertus n. sp." = Kliveria incerta2 Kliver 1886 winged insect
from Richardschacht
 Dicondylia -
"Blattariae "indet b"" = Blattaria1
"Blattariae "indet b"" = Blattaria1 Latreille 1810 cockroach
 Palaeodictyoptera -
"Dictyoneura sinuosa n. sp." = Gegenemene sinuosa
"Dictyoneura sinuosa n. sp." = Gegenemene sinuosa Kliver 1883 winged insect
Bergschule Saarbrücken 7d Aa 36
1Guthörl 1934; 2Kliver 1886