Brücken, Canton Waldmohr (Carboniferous of Germany)
Where: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (49.4° N, 7.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 17.3° E)
When: Ottweiler Layers Group, Stephanian (307.5 - 300.4 Ma)
• Upper 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
Primary reference: C. F. Goldenberg. 1869. Zur Kenntniss der fossilen Insecten in der Steinkohlen-Formation. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaeontologie 1869:158-168 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122603: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.01.2012
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"Blattina weissiana n. sp." = Sysciophlebia euglyptica
"Blattina weissiana n. sp." = Sysciophlebia euglyptica Germar 1851 winged insect Blattina euglyptica var. weissiana
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