Wingertsweiler Hof near Winnweiler-Pfalz (Permian to of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.6° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 19.1° E)

When: Waderner Schichten Formation, Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 290.1 Ma)

• Winnweiler Stufe

•Oberes Rotliegendes

Environment/lithology: fluvial-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.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the BSP

Primary reference: A. Handlirsch. 1908. Ein tierischer Rest aus dem Oberrotliegenden, in Zur Kenntnis der Flora der Saarbrücker Schichten und des pfälzischen Oberrotliegenden. Geognostischen Jahresheften 1907:183-243 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138407: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 17.01.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
"Procopoblatta schusteri n. gen. n. sp." = Phyloblatta schusteri
"Procopoblatta schusteri n. gen. n. sp." = Phyloblatta schusteri Handlirsch 1908 winged insect
Bayer. Staats-Slg., München