Guichenbach near Heusweiler-Saar: Stephanian A, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Blattodea - Gyroblattidae
Guichenbachia gigantea n. gen., n. sp. Guthörl 1963
Guthörl 1963 1 specimen
synonym of Progonoblattina helvetica
Bergschule Saarbrucken D/283 (1 measurement)
Branchiopoda - Leaiidae
Leaia baentschiana Beyrich 1864
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 49.3° North, 6.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.3° North, 16.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 5
Key time interval:Stephanian A
Age range of interval:305.00000 - 301.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ottweiler Formation:Dilsburger
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Ottweiler Schichten, Dilsburger Schichten
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Environment:paralic 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:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Bergschule Saarbrücken
Metadata
Database number:138180
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2013-01-06 11:42:25 Last modified:2023-03-21 13:46:01
Access level:the public Released:2013-01-06 11:42:25
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]

Secondary references:

84167 P. Guthörl. 1963. Zur Arthropoden-Fauna des Karbons und Perms. 18. Weitere Insektenfunde (Blattodea) aus dem saar-lothringischen Karbon. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 118:245-259 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]