Grube Steinbach-Brücken, Grenzkohlen seam (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.5° N, 7.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 17.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ottweiler Formation, Stephanian (307.5 - 300.4 Ma)

• Upper Ottweiler shale, Grenzkohlen seam

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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." (Pers Comm Jan-Michael Ilger)

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: private collection of P. Guthorl

Primary reference: P. Guthörl. 1934. Die Arthropoden aus dem Carbon und Perm des Saar-Nahe-Pfalz-Gebietes. Abhandlungen der Preußischen Geologischen Landesanstalt Berlin 164:1-219 [M. Clapham/A. Delelli/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155778: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.05.2014, edited by Jered Karr

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Dicondylia - Spiloblattinidae
"Sysciophlebia steinbachi n. sp." = Syscioblatta dohrni
"Sysciophlebia steinbachi n. sp." = Syscioblatta dohrni Scudder 1879 winged insect
Guthorl collection 500(501)