Wahlschied Saar old mine tunnels (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Rheinlande, Germany (50.9° N, 7.3° E: paleocoordinates 2.5° N, 16.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hangendesdes Wahlschieder Flözes Member (Lower Ottweieler layer Formation), Stephanian (307.5 - 300.4 Ma)

• Untere Ottweiler Schichten

•Hangendesdes Wahlschieder Flözes

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; 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. "Coal seams from this area are called "limnic coals" are were deposited in intra-continental lakes." (Pers. Comm. Jan-Michael Ilger)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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 126164: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 31.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Dicondylia -
"Blattariae "sp. c"" = Blattaria
"Blattariae "sp. c"" = Blattaria Latreille 1810 cockroach
Geolog. Landesmus. Berlin
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca - Leaiidae
Leaia baentschiana
Leaia baentschiana Beyrich 1864 clam shrimp