Hirschbach mine: Westphalian C, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Branchiopoda
- Leaiidae
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Leaia herriana
Guthörl 1934
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Guthörl 1934 | |||||||||
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Leaia baentschiana
Beyrich 1864
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Guthörl 1934 | |||||||||
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Branchiopoda
- Lioestheriidae
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Estheria tenella
(Bronn 1850)
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Guthörl 1934 | |||||||||
| recombined as Pseudestheria tenella | ||||||||||
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Ostracoda
- Podocopida
- Candonidae
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Candona elongata
(Goldenberg 1870)
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Guthörl 1934 | |||||||||
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Insecta
- Blattodea
- Archimylacridae
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Blattina tischbeini n. sp.
Goldenberg 1873
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Goldenberg 1873 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Archimylacridae | ||||||||||
| (2 measurements) | ||||||||||
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Blattina insignis n. sp.
Goldenberg 1873
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Goldenberg 1873 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Archimylacridae | ||||||||||
| Skalley-shaft (5 measurements) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany |
| Coordinates: | 49.6° North, 11.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 0.7° South, 18.6° East |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Moscovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Westphalian C | ||
| Age range of interval: | 314.60000 - 309.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Heiligenwald | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Saarbrücker Schichten |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | blue "shale" | ||
| Lithology description: bluish shale | |||
| Environment: | lacustrine 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." (personal 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 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Grube Hirschbach bei Dudweiler-Saar | ||
| Database number: | 122593 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | J. Karr |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2012-01-03 16:37:59 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:02:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-01-03 16:37:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 37755. | S. H. Scudder. 1879. Palaeozoic Cockroaches: A complete revision of the species of both worlds, with an essay toward their classification. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 3:23-134 [M. Clapham/J. Karr] |
Secondary references:
| 50814 | F. Goldenberg. 1873. Fauna Saraepontana Fossilis. Die Fossilen Thiere aus der Steinkohlenformation von Saarbrücken, 1tes Heft 1-26 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
| 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] |