Altenwald mine: Westphalian C, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta
- Palaeodictyoptera
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Termitidium amissum n. sp.
Goldenberg 1877
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Goldenberg 1877 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Palaeodictyoptera | ||||||||||
Insecta
- Palaeodictyoptera
- Dictyoneuridae
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Dictyoneura obsoleta n. sp.
Goldenberg 1877
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Goldenberg 1877 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Arltia obsoleta | ||||||||||
Naturhist. Ver. Bonn 11(37) (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Dictyoneura schmitzi n. sp.
Goldenberg 1877
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Goldenberg 1877 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Arltia schmitzi | ||||||||||
Naturhist. Ver. Bonn 13(38) (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Termes heeri n. sp.
Goldenberg 1854
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1 specimen | |||||||||
recombined as Stilbocrocis heeri | ||||||||||
(2 measurements) | ||||||||||
Termes decheni n. sp.
Goldenberg 1854
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1 specimen | |||||||||
recombined as Polioptenus decheni | ||||||||||
(2 measurements) | ||||||||||
Insecta
- Palaeodictyoptera
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? Dictyoneura macrophlebia n. sp.
Handlirsch 1906
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Handlirsch 1906 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Palaeodictyoptera | ||||||||||
Insecta
- Blattodea
- Archimylacridae
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Blattina scaberata n. sp.
Goldenberg 1877
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Goldenberg 1877 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Archimylacridae | ||||||||||
Naturhist. Ver. Bonn 28 | ||||||||||
Arachnida
- Trigonotarbida
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Termes hageni n. sp.
Goldenberg 1873
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Goldenberg 1873 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Trigonotarbida | ||||||||||
(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Myriapoda
- Arthropleurida
- Arthropleuridae
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Arthropleura enodis
Guthörl 1934
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Guthörl 1934 | |||||||||
Arthropleura armata
Jordan 1854
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Guthörl 1934 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
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Oniscina ornata n. gen., n. sp.
Goldenberg 1873
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Goldenberg 1873 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Germany | State/province: | Saarland |
Coordinates: | 49.3° North, 7.1° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 1.7° South, 16.3° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Middle Pennsylvanian |
Stage: | Moscovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 |
Key time interval: | Westphalian C | ||
Age range of interval: | 314.60000 - 311.45000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Lower Saarbrucker layer | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: middle carboniferous |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | blue lithified "shale" | ||
Secondary lithology: | unlithified bituminous coal | ||
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
Collection methods: | surface (float) |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: Repository: Naturhistorischer Verein der Rheinlande und Westfalens, Bonn (NHV) |
Metadata
Database number: | 122601 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | J. Karr, M. Clapham |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
Created: | 2012-01-03 18:58:18 | Last modified: | 2013-12-03 21:26:46 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-01-03 18:58:18 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
49286. | F. Goldenberg. 1854. Die fossilen Insecten der Kohlenformation von Saarbrücken. Palaeontographica 4:17-38 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
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] | |
50816 | F. Goldenberg. 1877. Fauna Saraepontana Fossilis. Die Fossilen Thiere aus der Steinkohlenformation von Saarbrücken, IItes Heft 1-54 [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] | |
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] |