Sulzbach railway cut (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Saarland, Germany (49.3° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 1.7° S, 16.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Saarbrucker layer Formation, Westphalian C (314.6 - 309.8 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

Collection methods: Repository: Naturhistorischer Verein der Rheinlande und Westfalens, Bonn (NHV)

Primary reference: F. Goldenberg. 1854. Die fossilen Insecten der Kohlenformation von Saarbrücken. Palaeontographica 4:17-38 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123956: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.02.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Myriapoda
 Arthropleurida - Arthropleuridae
Troxites germari n. gen. n. sp., Arthropleura armata
Troxites germari n. gen. n. sp. Goldenberg 1854 millipede
Arthropleura armata Jordan 1854 millipede
Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera - Dictyoneuridae
"Dictyoneura humboldtiana n. sp." = Dictyoneuridae humboldtiana
"Dictyoneura humboldtiana n. sp." = Dictyoneuridae humboldtiana Goldenberg 1854 winged insect
Naturhist. Ver. Bonn, 8 (Guthorl gives location as Altenwald pit)