Dudweiler coal-pit (Bonn collection) (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: 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 - 311.4 Ma)

• middle Carboniferous

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

Collected by Winter

• Repository: Naturhistorischer Vereins Bonn

Primary reference: F. Goldenberg. 1870. Zwei neue Ostracoden und eine Blattina aus der Steinkohlenformation von Saarbrücken. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaeontologie 1870:286-289 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122597: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
"Blattina winteriana n. sp." = Archimylacridae winteriana
"Blattina winteriana n. sp." = Archimylacridae winteriana Goldenberg 1870 cockroach
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