Coal-pit on the Remigiusberge (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.5° N, 7.4° E: paleocoordinates 1.3° N, 17.3° E)

When: Stephanian (307.5 - 300.4 Ma)

• Upper Carboniferous

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, argillaceous schist

• 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

Primary reference: A. Dohrn. 1867. Zur Kenntniss der Insecten in den Primärformationen. Paleontographica 16:129-135 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122598: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
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"? Termitidium rugosum n. sp." = Termitidiopsis rugosum
"? Termitidium rugosum n. sp." = Termitidiopsis rugosum Goldenberg 1877 insect
Naturhist. Ver. Bonn 7(36)
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
Blattina remigii n. sp. Dohrn 1867 cockroach