Dunzweiler mine near Brücken-Pfalz (Carboniferous of Germany)
Where: Germany (49.4° N, 7.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 17.3° E)
When: Ottweiler Schichten Formation, Stephanian (307.5 - 300.4 Ma)
• Obere Ottweiler Schichten
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale
• 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 classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: P. Guthörl. 1934. Die Arthropoden aus dem Carbon und Perm des Saar-Nahe-Pfalz-Gebietes. Abhandlungen der Preußischen Geologischen Landesanstalt Berlin 164:1-219 [M. Clapham/A. Delelli/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138004: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 02.01.2013
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Sysciophlebia sp. Handlirsch 1906 winged insect | |