Lochbrunnen, near Oberhof (Permian of Germany)

Where: Thüringer Wald, Germany (50.7° N, 10.7° E: paleocoordinates 6.1° N, 21.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oberhof Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Sakmarian according to Voigt et al. (2022).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; shale

• Thuringian Forest basin; extensional basin with dextral strike-slip transtension component following the Variscan orogeny. After a relief reactivation, red-brown alluvial fan conglomerates and fluvial sandstones grade into brownish to greenish fluvio-lacustrine and very finely laminated (varved) black shales of the depocentres intercalated by basin-wide tuff marker-beds." Roscher & Schneider, 2006

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Zentralen Geologischen Instituts Berlin (ZGI) and Bergakademie Freiberg (FG)

Primary reference: F. E. Zeuner. 1936. Das erste Protoperlar aus europäischem Perm und die Abstammung der Embien. Jahrbuch der Preussischen Geologischen Landesanstalt 56:266-273 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160735: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.08.2014, edited by Emma Dunne

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Branchiosauridae
Melanerpeton arnhardti n. sp.
Melanerpeton arnhardti n. sp. Werneburg 1988 tetrapod
NMSch (SAS) 195/43-44 (Holotype: skull and anterior portion of postcranial skeleton)
 Temnospondyli - Eryopidae
Onchiodon labyrinthicus
Onchiodon labyrinthicus Geinitz 1861 tetrapod
GMH 26
Insecta
 Grylloblattodea - Lemmatophoridae
Germanoprisca zimmermanni n. gen. n. sp.
Germanoprisca zimmermanni n. gen. n. sp. Zeuner 1936 ice crawler
ZGI X 634 (part), FG 251/1 (counterpart)