mine Camphausen near Fischbach (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.8° N, 7.4° E: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 15.9° E)

When: Untere Saarbrücker Schichten Formation, Westphalian C (314.6 - 311.4 Ma)

• Untere Saarbrücker Schichten

•Sulzbachflözgruppe (Fettkohlenpartie, Westfalische Stufe C)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified 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 class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138002: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 02.01.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
Archimylacridae "sp y" Handlirsch 1906 cockroach
Bergaschule Saarbrücken Aa I 30 (Aa I 31)
 Dicondylia -
Breyeriodes kliveri n. gen. n. sp.
Breyeriodes kliveri n. gen. n. sp. Handlirsch 1906 winged insect
"Fragment of one wing" in Kliver, 1883 (Pl 35, fig 6)
Myriapoda
 Arthropleurida - Arthropleuridae
Arthropleura armata Jordan 1854 millipede