Sarre-et-Moselle colliery, siège of Merlebach, pit 5, vein 18: Westphalian C, France

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Blattodea - Mylacridae
Soomylacris lotharingiae n. sp. Waterlot 1934
1 specimen
(1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:France
Coordinates: 49.2° North, 6.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.1° South, 14.7° 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:Sulzbach
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Upper part of Sulzbach layer
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
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
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Musée houiller de l'Université de Lille
Metadata
Database number:153152
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2013-12-08 22:26:22 Last modified:2013-12-08 22:31:31
Access level:the public Released:2013-12-08 22:26:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]