Hirschbach mine; Rothell-Querschlag, V. Tiefbausohle (Carboniferous of Germany)
Also known as Grube Hirschbach bei Dudweiler-Saar
Where: Germany (49.6° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 2.1° N, 19.9° E)
When: Stephanian (307.5 - 300.4 Ma)
• Untere Ottweiler Schichten
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; blue 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." (personal comm. Jan-Michael Ilger)
• bluish shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
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 138348: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 15.01.2013
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