Homigtal near Breitenbach, Schleusingen (Freiburg 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: Geologisches Institut, TU Bergakademie Freiberg

Primary reference: J. Schneider and R. Werneburg. 1993. Neue Spiloblattinidae (Insecta, Blattodea) aus dem Oberkaron und Unterperm von Mitteleuropa sowie die Biostratigraphie des Rotliegend. Veröffentlichungen des Naturhistorischen Museums Schleusingen 7/8:31-52 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167767: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Dicondylia - Spiloblattinidae
Syscioblatta slusiensis n. sp., Sysciophlebia balteata
Syscioblatta slusiensis n. sp. Schneider and Werneburg 1993 winged insect
FG 144/4
Sysciophlebia balteata Scudder 1879 winged insect
FG 414/5