St. Wendel-Saar (Permian to of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.5° N, 7.2° E: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 18.8° E)

When: Lebacher Schichten Formation, Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 290.1 Ma)

• Unteres Rotliegendes

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; shale

• "The Saar-Nahe Basin is a late Varsician intramontane "molasse" basin in the Permo-Carboniferous. Coal seams from this area are called "limnic coals" are were deposited in intra-continental lakes." (Per. Com. Jan-Michael Ilger)

Size class: mesofossils

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 138376: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 16.01.2013

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Anaspidacea - Uronectidae
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca - Lioestheriidae
"Estheria tenella" = Pseudestheria tenella
"Estheria tenella" = Pseudestheria tenella Bronn 1850 clam shrimp