Where: Thüringer Wald, Germany (50.7° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 4.7° N, 20.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Goldlauter Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• Untere Goldlauterer Schichten, Acanthodeshorizont, Unterrotliegendes. Lower Acanthodes Lake Horizon. Both localities belong to the Sysciophlebia balteata-Spiloblattina homigtalensis insect zone and the Apateon flagrifer flagrifer-Branchierpeton reinholdi-Melanerpeton eisfeldi amphibian zone. Each of these is correlated on the basis of insect co-occurrences with marine zone-species as well by radioisotopic ages with the early Asselian (Schneider et al., 2020) of the Global Standard Chronostratigraphic Scale.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Heimatmuseum Schloss Wilhelmsburg, Schmalkalden (later Naturhistorisches Museum Schleusingen)

Primary reference: J. Schneider. 1978. Zur Taxonomic and Biostratigraphic der Blattodea (Insecta) des Karbon und Perm der DDR. Freiberger Forschungshefte C 340:7-151 [M. Clapham/A. Delelli/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128478: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 09.06.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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