Saarbrücken: Westphalian C - Westphalian D, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Branchiopoda
Estheria limbata Goldenberg 1877
Estheria rimosa Goldenberg 1877
Branchiopoda - Leaiidae
Leaia baentschiana Beyrich 1864
Leaia kliveriana Goldenberg 1873
synonym of Leaia buntschiana
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Candonidae
Candona elongata (Goldenberg 1870)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 49.2° North, 7.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.4° South, 15.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
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: Untere Saarbrücker Schichten; Mittleres Obercarbon
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
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Metadata
Database number:123953
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-02-03 02:50:52 Last modified:2014-04-19 19:02:29
Access level:the public Released:2012-02-03 02:50:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]