Dölau (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (51.5° N, 11.9° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 19.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ottweiler Stufe Formation, Stephanian C (301.0 - 300.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale

• Saale basin; extensional basin formed during transtension within Variscan belt

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125239: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 07.03.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
Blattoidea indeterminata Schlechtendal 1906 cockroach
 Blattodea -
"Blattoidea indet." = Blattodea, "Leptoblattina minuta n. sp." = Blattoidea minuta
"Blattoidea indet." = Blattodea Latreille 1810 cockroach
"Leptoblattina minuta n. sp." = Blattoidea minuta Schlechtendal 1906 cockroach
 Blattodea - Compsoblattidae
Phyloblatta doelauana n. sp. Handlirsch 1920 cockroach
Halle
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
"Phyloblatta berlichiana n. sp." = Phyloblatta flabellata
"Phyloblatta berlichiana n. sp." = Phyloblatta flabellata Germar 1842 winged insect
Halle