Where: Saarland, Germany (49.3° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 0.6° S, 16.8° E)

When: Lower Saarbrucker layer Formation, Westphalian C (314.6 - 311.4 Ma)

• middle carboniferous

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, blue shale and unlithified bituminous coal

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: surface (float)

Primary reference: 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] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122601: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.01.2012

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