Lebach (Permian of Germany)

Where: Saarland, Germany (49.4° N, 6.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 4.7° N, 19.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Meisenheim Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 293.5 Ma)

• Stratgraphy here based on Königer et al. (2002)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Schoch and A. R. Milner. 2000. Stereospondyli. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie - Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 3B:1-203 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180864: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 04.08.2016, edited by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Acanthodiformes - Acanthodidae
Acanthodes confusus2 Heidtke 2011 spiny fish
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Archegosaurus decheni n. gen. n. sp.
Archegosaurus decheni n. gen. n. sp. Goldfuss 1847 tetrapod
Specimen in the Dechen collection figured by Goldfuss (1847) and Meyer (1857) - current location is unknown. Hundreds of other specimens from this locality in collections at BMNH, FG, GMBA, GPIT, MB, MCZ, MNMH, SMNS, UMZC.
Osteichthyes
 Paramblypteriformes -
Amblypterus traquairi3 Woodward 1891
NHMUK P.994
 Palaeonisciformes -
Rhabdolepis eupterygius5
SMNS 95379, VP 1364 (holotype)
Rhabdolepis saarbrueckensis5 Gardiner 1963
BMNH 32576 (holotype), NMP-Sc95, BSPG-W84, GPIB-Rh1
Rhabdolepis macropterus1 Bronn 1829
NHM P.3453 (neotype), NMS 1874.40.11
 Elonichthyiformes - Elonichthyidae
Elonichthys fritschi4 Friedrich 1878 ray-finned fish