Birkenfeld (Permian to of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.7° N, 7.2° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 18.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 290.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; siliciclastic sediments

• 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

Collected by Boecking

• Specimens kept in geologischen Landesanstalt in Berlin

Primary reference: A. Dohrn. 1866. Eugereon boeckingi, eine neue Insectenform aus dem Todtliegenden. Palaeontographica 13:333-340 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127929: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 29.05.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera - Eugereonidae
Eugereon boeckingi n. gen. n. sp.
Eugereon boeckingi n. gen. n. sp. Dohrn 1866 winged insect
ZGI X 610
 Paoliida - Blattinopsidae
"Fulgora ebersi n. sp." = Blattinopsis ebersi
"Fulgora ebersi n. sp." = Blattinopsis ebersi Dohrn 1867 winged insect