Sellerbach near Heusweiler-Saar (Carboniferous of Germany)
Where: Germany (49.3° N, 6.9° E: paleocoordinates 0.9° N, 16.9° E)
When: Ottweiler Schichten Formation, Stephanian (307.5 - 300.4 Ma)
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. Com. Jan-Michael Ilger)
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: P. Guthörl. 1934. Die Arthropoden aus dem Carbon und Perm des Saar-Nahe-Pfalz-Gebietes. Abhandlungen der Preußischen Geologischen Landesanstalt Berlin 164:1-219 [M. Clapham/A. Delelli/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138157: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 05.01.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham
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Taxonomic list
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| Branchiopoda | |
"Estheria tenella" = Pseudestheria tenella
"Estheria tenella" = Pseudestheria tenella Bronn 1850 clam shrimp | |
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Leaia baentschiana Beyrich 1864 clam shrimp | |
| Ostracoda | |
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Candona elongata Goldenberg 1870 ostracod | |
| Insecta | |
"Blattariae "sp d"" = Blattaria
"Blattariae "sp d"" = Blattaria Latreille 1810 cockroach | |
Archaemioptera carbonaria n. gen. n. sp.
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