Lochbrunnen excavation, Oberhof-Obere Schweizerhütte Road (Permian of Germany)

Where: Thüringer Wald, Germany (50.7° N, 10.7° E: paleocoordinates 6.1° N, 21.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oberhof Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Sakmarian according to Voigt et al. (2022).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; shale

• Thuringian Forest basin; extensional basin with dextral strike-slip transtension component following the Variscan orogeny. After a relief reactivation, red-brown alluvial fan conglomerates and fluvial sandstones grade into brownish to greenish fluvio-lacustrine and very finely laminated (varved) black shales of the depocentres intercalated by basin-wide tuff marker-beds." Roscher & Schneider, 2006

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts der Universität Jena

Primary reference: A. H. Müller. 1957. Uber Mylacridenreste (Insecta) aus dem Unterrotliegenden von Thüringen. Geologie: Zeitschrift für das Gesamtgebiet der Geologie und Mineralogie Sowie der Angewandten Geophysik 6:445-450 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160132: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Blattodea - Mylacridae
Opsiomylacris posthumus n. sp.
Opsiomylacris posthumus n. sp. Müller 1957 cockroach
GPIU Jena P303