Altenwald mine: Westphalian C, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera
Termitidium amissum n. sp. Goldenberg 1877
Goldenberg 1877 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Palaeodictyoptera
Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera - Dictyoneuridae
Dictyoneura obsoleta n. sp. Goldenberg 1877
Goldenberg 1877 1 specimen
recombined as Arltia obsoleta
Naturhist. Ver. Bonn 11(37) (1 measurement)
Dictyoneura schmitzi n. sp. Goldenberg 1877
Goldenberg 1877 1 specimen
recombined as Arltia schmitzi
Naturhist. Ver. Bonn 13(38) (1 measurement)
Termes heeri n. sp. Goldenberg 1854
1 specimen
recombined as Stilbocrocis heeri
(2 measurements)
Termes decheni n. sp. Goldenberg 1854
1 specimen
recombined as Polioptenus decheni
(2 measurements)
Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera
? Dictyoneura macrophlebia n. sp. Handlirsch 1906
Handlirsch 1906 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Palaeodictyoptera
Insecta - Blattodea - Archimylacridae
Blattina scaberata n. sp. Goldenberg 1877
Goldenberg 1877 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Archimylacridae
Naturhist. Ver. Bonn 28
Arachnida - Trigonotarbida
Termes hageni n. sp. Goldenberg 1873
Goldenberg 1873 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Trigonotarbida
(1 measurement)
Myriapoda - Arthropleurida - Arthropleuridae
Arthropleura enodis Guthörl 1934
Guthörl 1934
Arthropleura armata Jordan 1854
Guthörl 1934
Chondrichthyes
Oniscina ornata n. gen., n. sp. Goldenberg 1873
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]