Saarbrücken (Carboniferous to of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.2° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 15.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Saarbrucker layer Formation, Westphalian C to Westphalian C (314.6 - 307.5 Ma)

• Untere Saarbrücker Schichten; Mittleres Obercarbon

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

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: P. Guthörl. 1934. Die Arthropoden aus dem Carbon und Perm des Saar-Nahe-Pfalz-Gebietes. Abhandlungen der Preußischen Geologischen Landesanstalt Berlin 164:1-219 [M. Clapham/A. Delelli/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123953: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca -
Estheria limbata, Estheria rimosa
Estheria limbata Goldenberg 1877 clam shrimp
Estheria rimosa Goldenberg 1877 clam shrimp
 Diplostraca - Leaiidae
Leaia baentschiana, "Leaia kliveriana" = Leaia buntschiana
Leaia baentschiana Beyrich 1864 clam shrimp
"Leaia kliveriana" = Leaia buntschiana Beyrich 1864 clam shrimp
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Candonidae
Candona elongata
Candona elongata Goldenberg 1870 ostracod