Lochbrunnen, near Oberhof: Sakmarian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Grylloblattodea - Lemmatophoridae
Germanoprisca zimmermanni n. gen., n. sp. Zeuner 1936
1 specimen
ZGI X 634 (part), FG 251/1 (counterpart) (2 measurements)
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Eryopidae
Onchiodon labyrinthicus Geinitz 1861
Schoch and Milner 2014
GMH 26
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Branchiosauridae
Melanerpeton arnhardti n. sp. Werneburg 1988
Schoch and Milner 2014
NMSch (SAS) 195/43-44 (Holotype: skull and anterior portion of postcranial skeleton)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Thüringer Wald
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 10.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.1° North, 21.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Cisuralian
Stage:Sakmarian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 2
Key time interval:Sakmarian
Age range of interval:293.52000 - 290.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Oberhof
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Sakmarian according to Voigt et al. (2022).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Environment:lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: Thuringian Forest basin; extensional basin with dextral strike-slip transtension component following the Variscan orogeny. After a relief reactivation, red-brown alluvial fan conglomerates and fluvial sandstones grade into brownish to greenish fluvio-lacustrine and very finely laminated (varved) black shales of the depocentres intercalated by basin-wide tuff marker-beds." Roscher & Schneider, 2006
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Zentralen Geologischen Instituts Berlin (ZGI) and Bergakademie Freiberg (FG)
Metadata
Database number:160735
Authorizer:M. Clapham, R. Butler Enterer:M. Clapham, E. Dunne
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2014-08-27 13:14:36 Last modified:2022-07-20 18:33:42
Access level:the public Released:2014-08-27 13:14:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

52735. F. E. Zeuner. 1936. Das erste Protoperlar aus europäischem Perm und die Abstammung der Embien. Jahrbuch der Preussischen Geologischen Landesanstalt 56:266-273 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/O. Alfaro]

Secondary references:

52438 A. H. Müller. 1978. Zur Entomofauna des Permokarbon, Teil 4: Revision von Germanoprisca zimmermanni ("Protoperlaria", Protorthoptera) aus dem Unterrotliegenden des Thüringer Waldes. Freiberger Forschungsheft C 334:41-47 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
57795 R. R. Schoch and A. R. Milner. 2014. Handbook of Paleoherpetology Part 3A2 Temnospondyli I. [R. Butler/E. Dunne/E. Dunne]