Spoil heap from construction of flotz 2, Steinbach valley: Westphalian D, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Arachnida
- Phalangiotarbida
- Architarbidae
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Architarbus hoffmanni n. sp.
Guthörl 1934
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Guthörl 1934 | |||||||||
| Arthropodenrest (?Geraphrynus) in Kliver, 1886 (pl 14, fig 11) | ||||||||||
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= Opiliotarbus kliveri n. sp.
Waterlot 1934
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Waterlot 1934 | |||||||||
| synonym of Architarbus hoffmanni | ||||||||||
| Also based on Kliver's specimen | ||||||||||
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Insecta
- Blattodea
- Archimylacridae
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Etoblattina steinbachensis n. sp.
Kliver 1886
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Platyblatta steinbachensis | ||||||||||
| underlying Flotz 2 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany |
| Coordinates: | 49.3° North, 7.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 0.9° South, 15.7° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Moscovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Westphalian D | ||
| Age range of interval: | 309.80000 - 307.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Flöz Zweibänke | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Collecting places of insects are the clay stone layers above Seam Zwseibänke and Seam Dreibänke." Brauckmann & Herd, 2002. |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified claystone | ||
| Environment: | lacustrine deltaic 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." (Pers 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 |
| Taxonomic list comments:Material described by Kliver | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 125664 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | J. Karr, M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2012-03-15 09:05:01 | Last modified: | 2014-04-16 00:27:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-03-15 09:05:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 50788. | M. Kliver. 1886. Ueber einige neue Arthropodenreste aus der Saarbrücker und der Wettin-Löbejuner Steinkohlenformation. Palaeontographica 32:99-115 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
| 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] | |
| 49346 | G. Waterlot. 1934. Étude de la faune continentale du terrain houiller sarro-lorrain. Thèses Présentées a la Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de Lille 49:1-317 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |