Frankenholz-Saar pit, shaft 5 (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.4° N, 7.3° E: paleocoordinates 0.6° S, 16.5° E)

When: Geisheck Formation, Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)

• Upper Saarbrück Group, roughly 400 m deep

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

• 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 classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected in 1937-1938

• Repository: Saarbrücken Mining School

Primary reference: P. Guthörl. 1940. Zur Arthropoden-Fauna des Karbons und Perms. 11. Neue Insektenfunde (Palaeodictyoptera) aus Schacht 5 der Grube Frankenholz-Saar. Senckenbergiana 22:35-73 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156605: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 26.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Palaeodictyoptera -
Palapteris stenodictyus n. gen. n. sp.
Palapteris stenodictyus n. gen. n. sp. Guthörl 1940 winged insect
Bergschule Saarbrucken D/197
 Palaeodictyoptera - Dictyoneuridae
Dictyoneuridae "gen indet sp a", Rotundopteris multimediali n. gen. n. sp., "Longivenapteris pulchra n. gen. n. sp." = Stilbocrocis pulchra, Stilbocrocis lanceolata n. sp., "Pseudocleffia palatina n. gen. n. sp." = Cleffia palatina, Arltia mioanali n. sp., Arltia eurycubitalis n. sp., Polioptenus mancomediali n. sp., Macrodictya stenomediali n. gen. n. sp.
Dictyoneuridae "gen indet sp a" Handlirsch 1906 winged insect
Bergschule Saarbrucken D/195
Rotundopteris multimediali n. gen. n. sp. Guthörl 1940 winged insect
Bergschule Saarbrucken D/201
"Longivenapteris pulchra n. gen. n. sp." = Stilbocrocis pulchra Guthörl 1940 winged insect
Bergschule Saarbrucken D/209
Stilbocrocis lanceolata n. sp. Guthörl 1940 winged insect
Bergschule Saarbrucken D/193
"Pseudocleffia palatina n. gen. n. sp." = Cleffia palatina Guthörl 1940 winged insect
Bergschule Saarbrucken D/203
Arltia mioanali n. sp. Guthörl 1940 winged insect
Bergschule Saarbrucken D/191
Arltia eurycubitalis n. sp. Guthörl 1940 winged insect
Bergschule Saarbrucken D/207
Polioptenus mancomediali n. sp. Guthörl 1940 winged insect
Bergschule Saarbrucken D/205
Macrodictya stenomediali n. gen. n. sp. Guthörl 1940 winged insect
Bergschule Saarbrucken D/199