Guichenbach near Heusweiler-Saar (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.3° N, 6.9° E: paleocoordinates 0.3° N, 16.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dilsburger Formation (Ottweiler Group), Stephanian A (305.1 - 301.5 Ma)

• Lower Ottweiler Schichten, Dilsburger Schichten

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: paralic; 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: mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Bergschule Saarbrücken

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 138180: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 06.01.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Blattodea - Gyroblattidae
"Guichenbachia gigantea n. gen. n. sp." = Progonoblattina helvetica
"Guichenbachia gigantea n. gen. n. sp." = Progonoblattina helvetica Heer 1864 cockroach
Bergschule Saarbrucken D/283
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca - Leaiidae
Leaia baentschiana
Leaia baentschiana Beyrich 1864 clam shrimp