Where: Poland (50.6° N, 16.5° E: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 20.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Zacler Formation, Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)
• "Schatzlarer Schichten" (Langsettian)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale and coal
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Mr. Voelkel
• Repository: Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Hannover (branch Berlin), formerly Königlich-Preußische Geologische Landesanstalt. Some material was in Dresden (State Museum of Mineralogy and Geology) and Wroclaw (Muzeum Geologiczne), but is presumed lost.
Primary reference: F. Karsch. 1882. Ueber ein neues Spinnenthier aus der schlesischen Steinkohle und die Arachniden der Steinkohlen-formation überhaupt. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 34:556-561 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 146849: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.06.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Anthracomartus granulatus n. sp.2 Fritsch 1904 Apparently one of Karsch's A. voelkelianus specimens at Dresden Museum
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? Trigonotarbus sp.1 Pocock 1911 BGR Berlin 09447 (fig 2 of Anthracomartus voelkelianus in Karsch, 1882); counterpart Geol. Inst. Breslau/Wroclaw 556 missing, presumed lost
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