Where: Germany (51.5° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.7° S, 13.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bochum Formation, Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• From the Röttgersbank coal seam, which belongs to the Bochum Formation of Westphalian A age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Scheele

Primary reference: T. Ebert. 1892. Prestwichia (Euproops) scheeleana n. sp. Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Geologischen Landesanstalt und Bergakademie zu Berlin 10:215-220 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 216560: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.12.2020

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