Quarry of the brickworks Sick-Söhne (Carboniferous of Germany)

Also known as steinbrach der ziegelei sick-söhne

Where: Saarland, Germany (49.4° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 1.0° N, 17.2° E)

When: Lower Ottweiler Schichten Formation, Stephanian (306.9 - 298.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified, blue shale and unlithified bituminous coal

• 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

Collection methods: Repository: Bergschule Saarbrücken

Primary reference: P. Guthörl. 1936. Neue Beiträge zur Insekten-Fauna des Saar-Carbons. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 18:82-112 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156607: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 26.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Dicondylia -
"Blattariae indet." = Blattaria
"Blattariae indet." = Blattaria Latreille 1810 cockroach
Slg d. Verf. 570
 Blattodea - Necymylacridae
"Ottweileria schmidti n. gen. n. sp." = Necymylacris scudderi
"Ottweileria schmidti n. gen. n. sp." = Necymylacris scudderi Sellards 1908 cockroach
Slg d. Verf. 503 (504)