PBDB Collection

Konigin-Carola-Schacht (Permian of Germany)

Also known as Queen Carola Pit; Plauenscher Grund; Döhlen Basin, Königin-Carola-Schacht

Where: Saxony, Germany (51.0° N, 13.6° E: paleocoordinates 5.6° N, 21.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: 1. Flöz (1st seam) Member (Döhlen Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• "Cuseler Stufe, lower Rotliegend" (Romer & Price, 1940);

•" [...] die Skelettreste [...] sind [...] eindeutig der Döhlen-Formation zuzuordnen." ["...the skeletal remains [...] are unequivocally assignable to the Döhlen-Formation."] (Reichel & Schauer, 2006 p. 20/21, "Das Döhlener Becken bei Dresden - Geologie und Bergbau" [online] http://www.umwelt.sachsen.de/de/wu/umwelt/lfug/lfug-internet/veroeffentlichungen/verzeichnis/Boden/Bergbau%20in%20Sachsen/BBB12.Ansicht.neu.pdf);

•The 1st seam of the Döhlen-Formation comprises the uppermost part of the latter. This part of the Döhlen-Formation is Asselian in age, according to "Stratigraphische Tabelle von Deutschland 2002"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; lithified, gray shale

• "[...] stratiforme, relativ schmale rinnenähnliche Zonen, in denen Klastite als Suspensionen über das Flachmoor transportiert wurden." [...stratiform, relatively narrow, channel-like zones, in which clastites were transported as suspension across the swamp."] (Reichel & Schauer, 2006 p. 21)

• "Die „Grüne Schale“ ist ein bis 20 cm mächtiger grauer, feinschichtiger bis blättriger pelitischer Horizont mit lindgrünen Schmitzen, vermutlich ein Tuffit." ["The 'Grüne Schale' is an up to 20 cm thick, grey, laminated or foliated, pelitic horizon with pastel green clay fragments, presumably a tuffite"] (Reichel & Schauer, 2006 p. 20, "Das Döhlener Becken bei Dresden - Geologie und Bergbau" [online] http://www.umwelt.sachsen.de/de/wu/umwelt/lfug/lfug-internet/veroeffentlichungen/verzeichnis/Boden/Bergbau%20in%20Sachsen/BBB12.Ansicht.neu.pdf)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected in 1901

Primary reference: A. S. Romer and L. I. Price. 1940. Review of the Pelycosauria. Geological Society of America Special Paper 28:1-538 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85474: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 28.12.2008, edited by Emma Dunne and Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
Recumbirostra - Brachystelechidae	"Petrobates truncatus n. sp." = Batropetes fritschia¹ "Petrobates truncatus n. sp." = Batropetes fritschia¹ Geinitz and Deichmüller 1882 amniote S.275a/b
Synapsida -	"Pantelosaurus saxonicus n. gen. n. sp." = Haptodus baylei "Pantelosaurus saxonicus n. gen. n. sp." = Haptodus baylei Gaudry 1886 synapsid
Amphibia
Microsauria -	"Hylonomus geinitzi n. sp." = Saxonerpeton geinitzi² "Hylonomus geinitzi n. sp." = Saxonerpeton geinitzi² Credner 1890 tetrapod S.370a/b (Lectotype; counterpart blocks containing most of skeleton)

¹Carroll and Gaskill 1971; ²Credner 1890