Frankenholz: Westphalian C - Westphalian D, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Branchiopoda - Leaiidae
Leaia baentschiana Beyrich 1864
Guthörl 1934
Branchiopoda
Estheria limbata Goldenberg 1877
Guthörl 1934
Myriapoda - Arthropleurida - Arthropleuridae
Arthropleura armata Jordan 1854
Guthörl 1934
Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera - Dictyoneuridae
Dictyoneura nigra n. sp. Kliver 1883
Kliver 1883 1 specimen
Bergschule Saarbrücken 7d Ab 3 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Blattodea - Archimylacridae
Etoblattina propria n. sp. Kliver 1883
Kliver 1883 1 specimen
recombined as Platyblatta propria
Bergschule Saarbrücken 7d Ab 2 (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 49.4° North, 7.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.2° South, 16.3° East
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
Stage:Moscovian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 4
Key time interval:Westphalian C - Westphalian D
Age range of interval:314.60000 - 307.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lower Saarbrucker layer
Stratigraphy comments: Obere Saarbrücker Schichten
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: 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
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:123825
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-01-31 09:43:59 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2012-01-31 09:43:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35209. A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

41866 P. Guthörl. 1934. Die Arthropoden aus dem Carbon und Perm des Saar-Nahe-Pfalz-Gebietes. Abhandlungen der Preußischen Geologischen Landesanstalt Berlin 164:1-219 [M. Clapham/A. Delelli/M. Clapham]
50789 M. Kliver. 1883. Ueber einige neue Blattinarien- zwei Dictyoneura- und zwei Arthropleura-Arten aus der Saarbrücker Steinkohlenformation. Palaeontographica 29:249-267 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]