Piesberg quarry, "Flöz Zweibänke" (Museum Wuppertal collection) (Carboniferous of Germany)

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: Westphalian D (311.4 - 306.9 Ma)

• "Collecting places of insects are the clay stone layers above Seam Zweibänke and Seam Dreibänke." Brauckmann & Herd, 2002

Environment/lithology: lacustrine deltaic; lithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Museum Wuppertal

Primary reference: C. Brauckmann. 1991. Ein neuer Insekten-Rest (Megasecoptera) aus dem Ober-Karbon von Osnabrück. Osnabrücker Naturwissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 17:25-32 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172341: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.08.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Megasecoptera - Bardohymenidae
"Aspidothorax aestatis n. sp." = Alexahymen aestatis
"Aspidothorax aestatis n. sp." = Alexahymen aestatis Brauckmann 1991 winged insect
Museum Wuppertal Coll. G. Sommer