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
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"Termes parvulus n. sp." = Pseudotermes parvulus2
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Fulgorina klieveri n. sp.
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