Bad WitteKind near Halle (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (51.5° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° N, 18.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian (318.7 - 307.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal and shale

• Saale basin; extensional basin formed during transtension within Variscan belt

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying

• Specimens in the Museum in Halle

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125699: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Arram Noshirvan on 16.03.2012, edited by Jered Karr

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Compsoblattidae
"Phyloblatta wittekindiana n. sp." = Compsoblatta plana
"Phyloblatta wittekindiana n. sp." = Compsoblatta plana Schlechtendal 1906 cockroach
MH 1125