Friedrichstal railway cut (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Saarbrücken, Germany (49.3° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 16.4° E)

When: Westphalian (318.7 - 307.5 Ma)

• 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 classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

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 124243: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 09.02.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Adelophthalmidae
Adelophthalmus sp.3
Adelophthalmus sp.3 Meek and Worthen 1868 eurypterid
Myriapoda
 Arthropleurida - Arthropleuridae
Arthropleura armata n. gen. n. sp.4, Arthropleura punctata1
Arthropleura armata n. gen. n. sp.4 Jordan 1854 millipede
Arthropleura punctata1 Goldenberg 1873 millipede
Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera -
"Eurydictya richteri" = Eurydictyella richteri3
"Eurydictya richteri" = Eurydictyella richteri3 Guthörl 1934 winged insect
 Palaeodictyoptera - Dictyoneuridae
"Dictyoneura gracilis n. sp." = Dictyoneurula gracilis5, "Polioptenus willerti n. sp." = Arltia willerti2, "Arltia aff. willerti" = Arltia willerti3, Kallenbergia handlirschi n. gen. n. sp.2, "Dictyoneurula kliveri n. sp." = Dictyoneuridae kliveri3
"Dictyoneura gracilis n. sp." = Dictyoneurula gracilis5 Kliver 1886 winged insect
"Polioptenus willerti n. sp." = Arltia willerti2 Guthörl 1930 winged insect
"Arltia aff. willerti" = Arltia willerti3 Guthörl 1930 winged insect
Kallenbergia handlirschi n. gen. n. sp.2 Guthörl 1930 winged insect
"Dictyoneurula kliveri n. sp." = Dictyoneuridae kliveri3 Handlirsch 1906 winged insect
 Palaeodictyoptera -
Saarlandia flexisubcostata n. gen. n. sp.2, Althansia sahneri n. gen. n. sp.3, "Termes affinis n. sp." = Anagesthes affinis
Saarlandia flexisubcostata n. gen. n. sp.2 Guthörl 1930 winged insect
Althansia sahneri n. gen. n. sp.3 Guthörl 1934 winged insect
"Termes affinis n. sp." = Anagesthes affinis Goldenberg 1854 winged insect
Guthorl gives location as Grube Altenwald-Saar, railway cut
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
Friedrichsthalia blatteri n. sp.2
Friedrichsthalia blatteri n. sp.2 Guthörl 1930 winged insect
1Goldenberg 1873; 2Guthörl 1930; 3Guthörl 1934; 4Jordan and von Meyer 1854; 5Kliver 1886