Herrensohr near Jägersfreude-Saar (Carboniferous of Germany)
Where: Germany (49.3° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 15.8° E)
When: Flammkohlenpartie Formation, Westphalian C (314.6 - 309.8 Ma)
• Liegende Flammkohlenpartie
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale
• 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.
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: P. Guthörl. 1934. Die Arthropoden aus dem Carbon und Perm des Saar-Nahe-Pfalz-Gebietes. Abhandlungen der Preußischen Geologischen Landesanstalt Berlin 164:1-219 [M. Clapham/A. Delelli/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138346: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 15.01.2013
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