Railroad cutting at Jägersfreude (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Saarland, Germany (49.3° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 14.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Saarbrucken’schen Kohlengebirges Formation, Westphalian C (314.6 - 309.8 Ma)

• Middle part of the “Saarbrucken’schen Kohlengebirges”. Late Carboniferous: Moscovian (= Westphalian C).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, nodular, gray siltstone

• preserved in a grey siltstone and, according to the original description, was found between layers of coal of Westphalian C (= Moscovian) age

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, replaced with pyrite

Collected by Dr. H. Jordan in 1851

Primary reference: F. W. H. Jordan and H. von Meyer. 1854. Ueber die Crustaceen der Steinkohlenformation von Saarbrücken. Palaeontographica 4:1-15 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122623: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 04.01.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• The holotype, and only known specimen, of Adelophthalmus granosus is held in the arthropod palaeontology collections of the Museum fur Naturkunde (MfN) Berlin under the repository number MB.A. 890
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Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Adelophthalmidae
"Adelophthalmus (Eurypterus) granosus n. sp." = Adelophthalmus granosus
"Adelophthalmus (Eurypterus) granosus n. sp." = Adelophthalmus granosus von Meyer 1853 eurypterid
MB.A. 890
Myriapoda
 Euphoberiida - Euphoberiidae
"Chonionotus lithanthracis n. gen. n. sp." = Euphoberia lithanthracis
"Chonionotus lithanthracis n. gen. n. sp." = Euphoberia lithanthracis Jordan 1854 millipede