Near Wemmetsweiler (Goldenberg coll.): Stephanian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Blattodea - Archimylacridae
Anthracoblattina scudderi n. sp. Goldenberg 1881
Goldenberg 1881 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Archimylacridae
(1 measurement)
Blattina venosa n. sp. Goldenberg 1877
1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Archimylacridae
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Saarland
Coordinates: 49.3° North, 7.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.9° North, 17.3° 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
Stratigraphy comments: Upper carboniferous
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow lithified "shale"
Secondary lithology: unlithified bituminous coal
Lithology description: "The single specimen was found in a soft, yellowish shale" Scudder, 1879
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
Collection method comments: Repository: Naturhistorischer Vereins Bonn
Metadata
Database number:122620
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Karr, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-01-04 05:10:49 Last modified:2015-12-15 19:10:45
Access level:the public Released:2012-01-04 05:10:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

50816. F. Goldenberg. 1877. Fauna Saraepontana Fossilis. Die Fossilen Thiere aus der Steinkohlenformation von Saarbrücken, IItes Heft 1-54 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

51531 F. Goldenberg. 1881. Beitrag zur Insectenfauna der Kohlenformation von Saarbrücken. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 38:184-187 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
37755 S. H. Scudder. 1879. Palaeozoic Cockroaches: A complete revision of the species of both worlds, with an essay toward their classification. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 3:23-134 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]