Where: Saarland, Germany (49.2° N, 8.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.9° N, 18.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Humberg Black Shale Formation, Autunian (298.9 - 283.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, sideritic, black, carbonaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Witzmann. 2005. Cranial morphology and ontogeny of the Permo-Carboniferous temnospondyl Archegosaurus decheni Goldfuss, 1847 from the Saar–Nahe Basin, Germany. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 96(2):131-162 [M. Uhen/B. Friend]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 223630: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Brenay Friend on 17.11.2021, edited by Mark Uhen

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