Quarry of the brickworks Sick-Söhne: Stephanian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Blattodea - Necymylacridae
Ottweileria schmidti n. gen., n. sp. Guthörl 1936
1 specimen
synonym of Dinoblatta scudderi
Slg d. Verf. 503 (504) (1 measurement)
Insecta - Blattaria
Blattariae indet. Latreille 1810
1 specimen
corrected as Blattaria
Slg d. Verf. 570
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Saarland
Coordinates: 49.4° North, 7.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.0° North, 17.2° East
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 4-5
Key time interval:Stephanian
Age range of interval:307.40000 - 300.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lower Ottweiler Schichten
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:blue lithified "shale"
Secondary lithology: unlithified bituminous coal
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine 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,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Bergschule Saarbrücken
Metadata
Also known as:steinbrach der ziegelei sick-söhne
Database number:156607
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr
Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2014-05-26 22:54:58 Last modified:2014-05-26 22:54:58
Access level:the public Released:2014-05-26 22:54:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
47901. P. Guthörl. 1936. Neue Beiträge zur Insekten-Fauna des Saar-Carbons. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 18:82-112 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]