ammonites
Saarlouis Lebach ironstone nodules (Permian to of Germany)

Where: Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (49.3° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 18.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 290.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; nodular ironstone

• "The Saar-Nahe Basin is a late Varsician intramontane "molasse" basin in the Permo-Carboniferous. Coal seams from this area are called "limnic coals" are were deposited in intra-continental lakes." (Per. Com. Jan-Michael Ilger)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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 122606: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 03.01.2012

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