Kohlwald Mine (Flöz Huyssen) (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.3° N, 7.2° E: paleocoordinates 0.6° S, 16.5° E)

When: Heiligenwalder Formation, Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• Heiligenwalder schichten, Hangendes von Flöz Huyssen

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; 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.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: P. Guthörl. 1962. Zur Arthropoden-Fauna des Karbons und Perms. 14. Kohlwaldia kuhni n. g. n. sp. (Ins., Protodon.) aus dem Westfal D des Saarkarbons mit einer Zusammenstellung der bis jetzt bekannten palaeozoischen Protodonatenarten. Annales Universitatis Saraviensis 10:49-56 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146351: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 22.06.2013

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Taxonomic list

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 Radiatopses - Medullosaceae
Neuropteris ovata
Insecta
 Meganisoptera - Kohlwaldiidae
Kohlwaldia kuehni n. gen. n. sp.
Kohlwaldia kuehni n. gen. n. sp. Guthörl 1962 griffinfly
Bergschule Saarbrücken D/247