Sample NöP, Forest road near Wertschach, Nötsch (Carboniferous of Austria)

Where: Austria (46.6° N, 13.6° E: paleocoordinates 14.0° S, 22.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nötsch Formation, Alportian (322.8 - 321.8 Ma)

• Middle to upper Namurian A based on plant fossils.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by H. Kabon

• Repository: Botanischer Garten Klagenfurt/Österreich

Primary reference: R. Rossler and C. Brauckmann. 2000. Der erste Arachnidenfund im Paläozoikum der Alpen: Aphantomartus pustulatus (Scudder 1884) aus dem ältesten Ober-Karbon (mittleres bis oberes Namurium A) von Nötsch (Österreich). Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 142:227-234 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153488: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.12.2013

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Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Aphantomartidae