Homigtal near Breitenbach, Schleusingen (Ausstellungzentrum Schleusingen coll.) (Permian of Germany)

Where: Thüringer Wald, Germany (50.5° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 6.0° N, 21.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified 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: Ausstellungzentrum Schleusingen (later Naturhistorisches Museum Schleusingen)

Primary reference: J. Schneider. 1978. Zur Variabilität der Flügel paläozoischer Blattodea (Insecta), Teil II. Freiberger Forschungsheft C 334:21-39 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160734: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Dicondylia - Spiloblattinidae
Spiloblattina homigtalensis n. sp., Sysciophlebia balteata
Spiloblattina homigtalensis n. sp. Schneider and Werneburg 1993 winged insect
SM/G 119
Sysciophlebia balteata Scudder 1879 winged insect
NHMS-FP 155/3, 126, 128, 5