Contemporaries of "ursaurier" in the delta

The Permo-Carboniferous sites between Bohemia and France impress with their pelycosaurs and large amphibians. But they cannot be understood without most of their fauna: fishes, invertebrates and tiny quadrupeds. The diversity is greatest on the banks where the delta connects lakes, land and channels. Small crustaceans were represented by conchostracans and syncarids, bivalves by possible unionids. Snails have also been recorded. Millipedes (Euphobera) and microsaurs (still undetermined) were more land-bound. Of the fishes, the rarer Sarcopterygii are depicted: an early freshwater coelacanth (cf. Rhabdoderma), above a lungfish (cf. Sagenodus), as well as the tetrapodomorph Palatinichthys, which is most closely related to quadrupeds.

digital painting, 2023

poster presentation, for conference article see: Voigt, S., Fischer, J., Schindler, T., Poschmann, M., & Geißler, C. (2023). Citizens, science and industry save several thousand fossils from the Remigiusberg lagerstaette (Pennsylvanian-Permian boundary, Saar-Nahe Basin, SW Germany). Abstract Volume, 94. Jahrestagung Paläontologische Gesellschaft, 95. https://www.palaeontologische-gesellschaft.de/fileadmin/user_upload/PalGes/Tagungen/Abstractband_PalGes2023.pdf