Mine dump near Dudweiler railway station (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.3° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 15.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• middle Carboniferous

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• 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

Collection methods: Repository: Naturhistorischer Vereins Bonn

Primary reference: F. Goldenberg. 1877. Fauna Saraepontana Fossilis. Die Fossilen Thiere aus der Steinkohlenformation von Saarbrücken, IItes Heft 1-54 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155593: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.04.2014, edited by Jered Karr

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera -
"Termes laxa n. sp." = Eumecoptera laxa
"Termes laxa n. sp." = Eumecoptera laxa Goldenberg 1877 winged insect
Naturhist. Ver. Bonn 19(20)
 Palaeodictyoptera - Dictyoneuridae
"Dictyoneura elongata n. sp." = Goldenbergia elongata, "Dictyoneura elegans n. sp." = Polioptenus elegans
"Dictyoneura elongata n. sp." = Goldenbergia elongata Goldenberg 1877 winged insect
Naturhist Ver. Bonn, 9
"Dictyoneura elegans n. sp." = Polioptenus elegans Goldenberg 1877 winged insect
Naturhist Ver. Bonn, 10