Where: Lower Saxony, Germany (52.3° N, 8.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.3° N, 15.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Flöz Dreibänke Formation, Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)
• "Collecting places of insects are the clay stone layers above Seam Zwseibänke and Seam Dreibänke." Brauckmann & Herd, 2002
Environment/lithology: lacustrine deltaic; lithified claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: Repository: Natureum am Schloss Ludwigslust, Museum der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Mecklenburg (SNL)
Primary reference: W. Zessin, C. Brauckmann, and E. Gröning. 2021. A new insect (probably basal Odonatoptera) from the Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous) of the Piesberg Fossil-Lagerstätte, Osnabrück, Germany. Palaeoentomology 4:532-536 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 156166: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.05.2014, edited by Jered Karr
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Osnabruggiala seppelti n. gen. n. sp.
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