Kammerberg-Stützerbach road, northwest of Schneidemüllerskopfe (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Thuringia, Germany (50.7° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 3.2° N, 19.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Gehrener Formation, Stephanian C (301.0 - 300.4 Ma)

• 30 m above Ilmtal granitoid

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale

• Thuringian Forest basin; extensional basin with dextral strike-slip transtension component following the Variscan orogeny

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by W. Reichardt in 1932

• Repository: collection of W. Reichardt, Jena

Primary reference: F. E. Zeuner. 1933. Die Stammesgeschichte der Käfer. Uher die Beziehungen der Form der Organe zu ihrer Funktion I. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 15:280-311 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152999: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.12.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Protelytroptera - Elytroneuridae
Blattocoleus tillyardi n. gen. n. sp.
Blattocoleus tillyardi n. gen. n. sp. Zeuner 1933 winged insect