Michelsberg near Wemmetsweiler (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Saarland, Germany (49.4° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° N, 17.7° E)

When: Untere Ottweiler Schichten Formation, Stephanian (307.5 - 300.4 Ma)

• Untere Ottweiler Schichten

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, blue shale and unlithified bituminous coal

• 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: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: C. F. Goldenberg. 1869. Zur Kenntniss der fossilen Insecten in der Steinkohlen-Formation. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaeontologie 1869:158-168 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138356: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 15.01.2013

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Taxonomic list

Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca - Leaiidae
Leaia baentschiana1 Beyrich 1864 clam shrimp
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Candonidae
Candona elongata1 Goldenberg 1870 ostracod
Insecta
 Dicondylia - Fulgorinidae
Fulgorina klieveri n. sp. Goldenberg 1869 winged insect
Naturhist. Ver. Bonn, 30
 Dicondylia -
"Termes parvulus n. sp." = Pseudotermes parvulus2
"Termes parvulus n. sp." = Pseudotermes parvulus2 Kliver 1886 winged insect