Where: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (49.8° N, 7.7° E: paleocoordinates 3.3° N, 18.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Spiloblattina odernheimensis other zone, Odernheim Member (Meisenheim Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• Based on the insect zonation of Schneider & Werneburg (2006), the Odernheim black shale (Meisenheim Formation) belongs to the Spiloblattina odernheimensis zone (no. 10) (Lower Rotliegend, Early Sakmarian). Odernheim lake horizon (L-O8 or M8 respectively).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, replaced with pyrite

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: J. Prokop, K. D. Weiß, R. P. Dechambre and A. Nel. 2012. Early Permian insects from Saar-Nahe Basin of Odernheim town site, Rheinland-Pfalz in Germany (Insecta, Grylloblattida, Blattinopseida). Geodiversitas 34:271-281 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130150: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.07.2012, edited by Jered Karr

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