Ottostollen mine tip, Ilfeld (Permian of Germany)

Where: Thuringia, Germany (51.6° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 5.6° N, 20.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Netzkater Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• The Ilfeld Basin is a small strike-slip pull-apart basin that formed cogenetically with a neighboring rhomb horst - the Kyffhauser.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Geiseltalmuseum of the University of Halle

Primary reference: R. Rössler, J. A. Dunlop, and J. W. Schneider. 2003. A redescription of some poorly known Rotliegend arachnids from the Lower Permian (Asselian) of the Ilfeld and Thuringian Forest Basins, Germany. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 77:417-427 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155777: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.05.2014, edited by Jered Karr

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
Anthracoblattina ? rueckerti Goldenberg 1869 winged insect
MH 90
 Dicondylia - Spiloblattinidae
Sysciophlebia hercynica n. sp. Scharf 1924 winged insect
MH 0/70
Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida -
Eophrynus scharfi n. sp. Scharf 1924
SCHA1924.8.MLU
 Trigonotarbida - Aphantomartidae
"Eophrynus ilfeldicus n. sp." = Aphantomartus ilfeldicus
"Eophrynus ilfeldicus n. sp." = Aphantomartus ilfeldicus Scharf 1924
SCHA1924.9.MLU
 Phalangiotarbida - Opiliotarbidae
Opiliotarbus elongatus Scudder 1890 phalangiotarbid
SCHA1924.7.MLU