Dudweiler coal-pit (SMF collection) (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.3° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 15.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Saarbrucker layer Formation, Westphalian C (314.6 - 309.8 Ma)

• middle Carboniferous

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, black shale

• 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 class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the SMF

Primary reference: K. Andrée. 1913. Über Anthracophrynus tuberculatus nov. gen. nov. spec. aus dem produktiven Karbon von Dudweiler im Saar-Revier, nebst einer Liste der bisher im Karbon Deutschlands gefundenen Arachnoideen-Reste. Jahres-Berichte und Mitteilungen des Oberrheinischen Geologischen Vereines 3:89-93 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172344: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.08.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida -
Anthracophrynus tuberculatus n. gen. n. sp.
Anthracophrynus tuberculatus n. gen. n. sp. Andrée 1913