Kohlwald Mine (Flöz Huyssen): Westphalian D, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Medullosaceae
Neuropteris ovata
Insecta - Meganisoptera - Kohlwaldiidae
Kohlwaldia kuehni n. gen., n. sp. Guthörl 1962
1 specimen
Bergschule Saarbrücken D/247 (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 49.3° North, 7.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.6° South, 16.5° East
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Pennsylvanian
Stage: Moscovian 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 4
Key time interval: Westphalian D
Age range of interval: 309.8 - 307.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Heiligenwalder
Stratigraphy comments: Heiligenwalder schichten, Hangendes von Flöz Huyssen
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "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
Metadata
Database number:146351
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2013-06-22 03:24:43 Last modified:2023-03-21 16:34:27
Access level:the public Released:2013-06-22 03:24:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
47279. P. Guthörl. 1962. Zur Arthropoden-Fauna des Karbons und Perms. 14. Kohlwaldia kuhni n. g. n. sp. (Ins., Protodon.) aus dem Westfal D des Saarkarbons mit einer Zusammenstellung der bis jetzt bekannten palaeozoischen Protodonatenarten. Annales Universitatis Saraviensis 10:49-56 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]