Velsen Borehole II depth 1360 m. near the Velsen mine Saar (Carboniferous of Germany)

Also known as Tiefbohrung Velsen II bei grube Velsen-Saar: Teufe 1360 m

Where: Germany (49.2° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 14.7° E)

When: Upper Saarbrucker layer Formation, Westphalian C (314.6 - 309.8 Ma)

• untere Saarbrücker Schichten

Environment/lithology: 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. Comm. Jan-Michael Ilger)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

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 138377: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 16.01.2013

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Insecta
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
"Archimylacris diensti n. sp." = Archimylacris lubnensis
"Archimylacris diensti n. sp." = Archimylacris lubnensis Kušta 1883 cockroach