Baldur coal mine, seam 18 (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (51.7° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.2° S, 13.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 Ma)

• Westphalian B according to Brauckmann & Hahn, 1980

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by W. Honermann in 1921

• Repository: Westfälischen Berggewerkschaftskasse Bochum (for Archimylacris westfalica at least)

Primary reference: F. Meunier. 1925. Eine neue Blattide (Protoblattinae) aus der westfälischen Gasflammkohlengruppe. Glückhauf: Berg- und Hüttenmännische Zeitschrift 61:105-107 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155694: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Paoliida - Blattinopsidae
Balduriella latissima n. gen. n. sp.
Balduriella latissima n. gen. n. sp. Meunier 1925 winged insect
 Blattodea - Archimylacridae
Archimylacris westfalica n. sp. Schmidt 1962 cockroach
WB 389 (identified as Phyloblatta-Etoblattina according to Meunier's label)