Pochwerksgrund near Goldlauter (MLU Halle-Wittenberg coll) (Permian of Germany)

Where: Thüringer Wald, Germany (50.6° 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)

• Acanthodes-Horizont, Untere Goldlauterer Schichten, Unterrotliegendes. Stratigraphically above the Ilmenau Formation, which was recently dated 299.3 ± 0.3 Ma by U-Pb CA-ID-TIMS (Lützner et al. 2021). Asselian according to Voigt et al. (2022).

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; shale

• Thuringian Forest basin; extensional basin with dextral strike-slip transtension component following the Variscan orogeny. After a relief reactivation, red-brown alluvial fan conglomerates and fluvial sandstones grade into brownish to greenish fluvio-lacustrine and very finely laminated (varved) black shales of the depocentres intercalated by basin-wide tuff marker-beds." Roscher & Schneider, 2006

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: MLU Halle-Wittenberg

Primary reference: H. Haupt. 1952. Insektenfunde aus den Goldlauterer Schichten des Thüringer Waldes. Hallesches Jahrbuch für Mitteldeutsche Erdgeschichte 1:241-258 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128485: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 10.06.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Ctenostematopteryx minor
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Ctenostematopteryx minor n. sp.
Ctenostematopteryx minor n. sp. Haupt 1952
MLU Halle-Wittenberg 481389
Archelytron priscus
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Archelytron priscus n. gen. n. sp.
Archelytron priscus n. gen. n. sp. Haupt 1952
MLU Halle-Wittenberg 481385
Insecta
 Paoliida - Blattinopsidae
Blattinopsis postumus n. sp.
Blattinopsis postumus n. sp. Haupt 1952 winged insect
MLU Halle-Wittenberg 481381
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
"Ctenostematopteryx sp." = Anthracoblattina, "Ctenostematopteryx thuringiaca n. gen. n. sp." = Anthracoblattina porrecta
"Ctenostematopteryx sp." = Anthracoblattina Scudder 1879 winged insect
MLU Halle-Wittenberg 481391
"Ctenostematopteryx thuringiaca n. gen. n. sp." = Anthracoblattina porrecta Geinitz 1875 winged insect
MLU Halle-Wittenberg 481387(8)
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
Archaeomantis fleischmanni n. gen. n. sp., Ctenostematopteryx diversa n. sp.
Archaeomantis fleischmanni n. gen. n. sp. Haupt 1952 cockroach
MLU Halle-Wittenberg 481383
Ctenostematopteryx diversa n. sp. Haupt 1952 cockroach
MLU Halle-Wittenberg 481390
 Blattodea - Mylacridae
Opsiomylacris procerus n. gen. n. sp.
Opsiomylacris procerus n. gen. n. sp. Haupt 1952 cockroach
MLU Halle-Wittenberg 481382
 Neuroptera -
Permorhipida furcativenosa n. gen. n. sp.
Permorhipida furcativenosa n. gen. n. sp. Haupt 1952 lacewing
MLU Halle-Wittenberg 481386
 Coleoptera -
Pachypleurites nodosus n. gen. n. sp.
Pachypleurites nodosus n. gen. n. sp. Haupt 1952 beetle
MLU Halle-Wittenberg 481384