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Altenglan
Altenglan is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kusel-Altenglan. Altenglan is a recognized tourism community. Also, named after the municipality is the Altenglan Formation, a lithostratigraphic entity, and by extension, so is ''Altenglanerpeton'', a microsaur whose fossil remains were found therein. Geography Location The municipality lies in the uplands in the Western Palatinate on the river Glan, which is the village's namesake, at an elevation in the valley of some 200 m above sea level, although the elevations within municipal limits reach almost 400 m (Bistersberg 387 m on the Glan's left bank; Kalmet 390 m on the Glan's right bank), and on the slopes of the Potzberg within the formerly self-administering municipality of Mühlbach almost 500 m. Altenglan lies roughly 5 k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altenglanerpeton
''Altenglanerpeton'' is an extinct genus of microsaur amphibian from the Late Carboniferous or Early Permian of Germany. ''Altenglanerpeton'' was named in 2012 after the Altenglan Formation in which it was found. The type species, type and only species is ''A. schroederi''. Description ''Altenglanerpeton'' is known from a single partial skeleton from an outcrop of the Altenglan Formation, which is part of the Saar–Nahe Basin. The Altenglan Formation dates back to the Carboniferous-Permian transition, about 299 million years ago. The skeleton was discovered sometime in the 1870s in the village of Dickenschied#Werschweiler, Werschweiler, and was first described by German paleontologist Eckart Schröder in 1939. Schröder tentatively assigned the specimen to the microsaur ''Microbrachis'', although its classification as a microsaur was questioned in later years. The holotype skeleton includes a crushed skull preserved in dorsal or top view, and a straight length of vertebrae and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedesbach
Bedesbach is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kusel-Altenglan, whose seat is in Kusel. Bedesbach is also a state-recognized tourist resort. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Kusel ''Musikantenland'' (“Minstrels’ Land”) in the Western Palatinate on the river Glan. Bedesbach lies on the river's right bank, across from Patersbach over on the left bank, at an elevation of roughly 200 m above sea level. The mountains that edge the valley reach elevations of about 400 m above from the sea level (Sulzberg 402 m, Hohenestel with cabin and lookout tower 399 m, Bächelskopf 357 m). The Sulzbach, which rises east of the village at the Birkenhübel (298 m), flows along a short course, emptying into the Glan downstream from the village. The municipal area measures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
