Grube Steinbach-Brücken, Breitenbacher seam (Carboniferous of Germany)
Where: Germany (49.5° N, 7.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 17.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ottweiler Formation, Stephanian (307.5 - 300.4 Ma)
• Upper Ottweiler shale, Breitenbacher coal seam
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; 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. "Coal seams from this area are called "limnic coals" are were deposited in intra-continental lakes." (Pers Comm Jan-Michael Ilger)
Size class: mesofossils
Reposited in the BSP
Primary reference: L. von Ammon. 1901. Ueber Anthracomartus aus dem Pfälzischen Carbon. Geognostische Jahreschefte 13:1-6 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138156: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 05.01.2013
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Anthracomartus palatinus n. sp.
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