Wemmetsweiler (Kliver coll) (Carboniferous of Germany)

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

When: Lower Ottweiler Schichten Formation, Stephanian (307.5 - 300.4 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

Collected by Kliver

• Repository: Bergschule Saarbrücken

Primary reference: F. Goldenberg. 1877. Fauna Saraepontana Fossilis. Die Fossilen Thiere aus der Steinkohlenformation von Saarbrücken, IItes Heft 1-54 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122600: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Dicondylia - Spiloblattinidae
"Blattina intermedia n. sp." = Sysciophlebia intermedia
"Blattina intermedia n. sp." = Sysciophlebia intermedia Goldenberg 1877 winged insect
Bergschule Saarbrücken 7c Ba 15
 Dicondylia - Petrablattinidae
"Blattina wemmetsweileriensis n. sp." = Petrablattina wemmetsweilerensis
"Blattina wemmetsweileriensis n. sp." = Petrablattina wemmetsweilerensis Goldenberg 1877 winged insect
Bergschule Saarbrücken
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
"Gerablattina robusta n. sp." = Archimylacridae robusta2
"Gerablattina robusta n. sp." = Archimylacridae robusta2 Kliver 1883 cockroach
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca -
Estheria limbata1
Estheria limbata1 Goldenberg 1877 clam shrimp
 Diplostraca - Leaiidae
Leaia baentschiana1
Leaia baentschiana1 Beyrich 1864 clam shrimp
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Candonidae
Candona elongata1
Candona elongata1 Goldenberg 1870 ostracod
1Guthörl 1934; 2Kliver 1883