Near the cemetery of Mannweiler-Cölln/Palatinate (Permian of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.7° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 3.3° N, 18.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Meisenheim Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• Rotliegend, Meisenheim Formation (M5)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• 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, adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz, Landessammlung fur Naturkunde Rheinland-Pfalz

Primary reference: M. Poschmann, A. Nel, T. Schindler and D. Uhl. 2021. Die Niedermoschel-Bank, ein bedeutender Fundhorizont mit einer hoch-diversen Insekten- und Pflanzenassoziation im Rotliegend (Unterperm) des Saar-Nahe-Beckens (Rheinland-Pfalz, SW-Deutschland). Mainzer Naturwissenschaftliches Archiv 58:17-40 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 222678: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.10.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Paoliida - Paoliidae
Permula lebachensis1
Permula lebachensis1 von Schlechtendal 1913 winged insect
NHMMZ PE2021/5003-LS
 Grylloblattodea - Lemmatophoridae
Pictoborella germanica2
Pictoborella germanica2 Prokop et al. 2012 ice crawler
NHMMZ PE2021/5002-LS
 Dicondylia -
Panorthoptera indet.
Panorthoptera indet. Crampton 1928 winged insect
NHMMZ PE 2020/5000-LSa,b
1Nel and Poschmann 2021; 2Poschmann et al. 2023