St. Ingbert, Flötz 10 (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.3° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 2.4° S, 15.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Saarbrucker Formation, Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• In the hanging wall of Flötz 10. Westphalian B according to Guthorl, 1934.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale

• 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, adpression

Reposited in the BSP

Primary reference: L. von Ammon. 1903. Neuere Aufschlüsse im pfälzischen Steinkohlengebirge. Geognostische Jahreshefte 15:281-286 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123822: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 31.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Protorthoptera - Thoronysididae
"Oedischia ingbertensis n. sp." = Thoronysis ingbertensis
"Oedischia ingbertensis n. sp." = Thoronysis ingbertensis von Ammon 1903 winged insect
 Blattodea -
"Blattoidea sp." = Blattodea
"Blattoidea sp." = Blattodea Latreille 1810 cockroach
Holotype in Bonn