Weiterstadt 1 Borehole, Depth 2270. 3 m (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.9° N, 8.6° E: paleocoordinates 2.1° N, 18.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Stephanian C (301.0 - 300.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, black 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.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Museum Wuppertal Fuhlrott

Primary reference: C. Brauckmann and R. Willmann. 1990. Insekten aus dem Permo-Silesium der Bohrung Weiterstadt 1 (Blattodea, Protorthoptera; Oberrheinische Tiefebene, SW-Deutschland). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Montashefte 1990(8):470-478 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133665: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 21.09.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Grylloblattodea - Liomopteridae
Liomopterites germanicus n. sp.
Liomopterites germanicus n. sp. Brauckmann and Willmann 1990 ice crawler
FMW I.K.1.2a-b
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
? Phyloblatta sp.
? Phyloblatta sp. Handlirsch 1906 winged insect
FMW I.K.1.1a-b Comparable to Ph. curvata or Ph. compacta