Spoil heap from construction of flotz 2, Steinbach valley: Westphalian D, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Arachnida
- Phalangiotarbida
- Architarbidae
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Architarbus hoffmanni n. sp.
Guthörl 1934
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Guthörl 1934 | |||||||||
Arthropodenrest (?Geraphrynus) in Kliver, 1886 (pl 14, fig 11) | ||||||||||
= Opiliotarbus kliveri n. sp.
Waterlot 1934
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Waterlot 1934 | |||||||||
synonym of Architarbus hoffmanni | ||||||||||
Also based on Kliver's specimen | ||||||||||
Insecta
- Blattodea
- Archimylacridae
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Etoblattina steinbachensis n. sp.
Kliver 1886
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2 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Platyblatta steinbachensis | ||||||||||
underlying Flotz 2 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Germany |
Coordinates: | 49.3° North, 7.0° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 0.9° South, 15.7° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
Stage: | Moscovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 |
Key time interval: | Westphalian D | ||
Age range of interval: | 309.80000 - 307.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Flöz Zweibänke | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "Collecting places of insects are the clay stone layers above Seam Zwseibänke and Seam Dreibänke." Brauckmann & Herd, 2002. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified claystone | ||
Environment: | lacustrine deltaic 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. "Coal seams from this area are called "limnic coals" are were deposited in intra-continental lakes." (Pers Comm. Jan-Michael Ilger). |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:Material described by Kliver |
Metadata
Database number: | 125664 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | J. Karr, M. Clapham |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
Created: | 2012-03-15 09:05:01 | Last modified: | 2014-04-16 00:27:06 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-03-15 09:05:01 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
50788. | M. Kliver. 1886. Ueber einige neue Arthropodenreste aus der Saarbrücker und der Wettin-Löbejuner Steinkohlenformation. Palaeontographica 32:99-115 [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] | |
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] | |
49346 | G. Waterlot. 1934. Étude de la faune continentale du terrain houiller sarro-lorrain. Thèses Présentées a la Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de Lille 49:1-317 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |