ammonites
Piesberg quarry,"Flöz Dreibänk" (Sowiak coll) (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Lower Saxony, Germany (52.3° N, 8.0° E: paleocoordinates 3.1° N, 16.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Flöz Dreibänke Formation, Westphalian D (311.4 - 306.9 Ma)

• "Collecting places of insects are the clay stone layers above Seam Zwseibänke and Seam Dreibänke." Brauckmann & Herd, 2002

Environment/lithology: lacustrine deltaic; lithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Michael Sowiak

Primary reference: C. Brauckmann and K. J. Herd. 2002. Insekten-funde aus dem Westfalium D (Ober-Karbon) des Piesberges bei Osnabrück (Deutschland). Teil 1: Palaeoptera. Osnabrücker Naturwissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 28:27-69 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122515: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.01.2012, edited by Jered Karr

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